Deployment of a network resource based on a containment structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10749946-B2
Application number	US-201816026418-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2018
Priority date	Apr 26, 2016
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

A system for provisioning resources within a computer network includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to identify a set of properties associated with a resource type based on a configuration item representative of a resource within a configuration management database (CMDB), determine a subset of the set of properties based on one or more deployment rules, wherein the subset of the set of properties comprises one or more properties of a parent configuration item of the configuration item, and provision, via a deployment agent, a new resource of the computer network, wherein the new resource has the subset of the set of properties.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for provisioning resources within a computer network, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to:
identify a set of properties associated with a resource type based on a configuration item representative of a resource within a configuration management database (CMIDB);
determine a subset of the set of properties based on one or more deployment rules, wherein the subset of the set of properties comprises one or more properties of a parent configuration item of the configuration item; and
provision, via a deployment agent, a new resource of the computer network, wherein the new resource has the subset of the set of properties.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to communicate, via a network interface, the provisioned new resource for activation within the computer network.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the subset of properties comprises properties particular to the configuration item representative of the resource.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more deployment rules comprise one or more containment rules related to a configuration hierarchy of configuration items of one or more resources of the computer network.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the subset of properties comprise relationships between the configuration item representative of the resource and other configuration items stored in the CMDB.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more deployment rules comprise one or more hosting rules related to valid combinations of hosting configuration items and hosted configuration items of one or more resources of the computer network.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more deployment rules define a containment structure useable by the deployment agent to provision the resource based on the configuration item of the resource.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to configure the deployment agent based on the containment structure.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to configure the deployment agent based on a configuration of an existing deployment agent, wherein the deployment agent is configured using specific properties of the existing deployment agent relating to a same configuration item type as the configuration item of the resource.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to configure the deployment agent based on a model of an existing deployment agent, wherein the deployment agent is configured using a deployment structure of the existing deployment agent.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to provision, by the deployment agent, the resource by modifying the resource with the subset of properties.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to activate the provisioned new resource on a hardware resource of the computer network.

13. A method for provisioning resources a computer network, comprising:
identifying, via a processor, a set of properties associated with a resource type based on a configuration item representative of a resource within a configuration management database (CMDB);
determining, via the processor, a subset of the set of properties based on one or more deployment rules, wherein the subset of the set of properties comprises one or more properties of a parent configuration item of the configuration item; and
provisioning, via a deployment agent, a new resource of the computer network, wherein the new resource has the subset of the set of properties.

14. The method of claim 13 , comprising communicating, via a network interface, the provisioned new resource for activation within the computer network.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the subset of properties comprises properties particular to the configuration item representative of the resource.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more deployment rules comprise one or more containment rules related to a configuration hierarchy of configuration items of one or more resources of the computer network.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the subset of properties comprise relationships between the configuration item representative of the resource and other configuration items stored in the CMDB.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more deployment rules comprise one or more hosting rules related to valid combinations of hosting configuration items and hosted configuration items of one or more resources of the computer network.

19. The method of claim 13 , comprising defining a containment structure useable by a deployment agent to provision the resource based on the configuration item of the resource using the one or more deployment rules.

20. A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
identify a set of properties associated with a resource type based on a configuration item representative of a resource within a configuration management database (CMDB);
determine a subset of the set of properties based on one or more deployment rules, wherein the subset of the set of properties comprises one or more properties of a parent configuration item of the configuration item; and
provision, via a deployment agent, a new resource having the subset of the set of properties.

Assignees

• Servicenow Inc

Inventors

• Kim Chanwook
• Owen James
• Banaji Vani
• Kibel Danny
• Challenger-Lee Christian
• Ivaturi Kashyap

Classifications

• G06F8/61 Primary

  Installation · CPC title

• H04L67/51

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title

• H04L67/1004

  Server selection for load balancing · CPC title

• H04L67/1029 Primary

  using data related to the state of servers by a load balancer · CPC title

• G06F9/5061

  Partitioning or combining of resources · CPC title