Automation and validation of insurance claims for infrastructure risks and failures in multi-processor computing environments

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11188984-B2
Application number	US-201916404384-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 6, 2019
Priority date	Oct 26, 2016
Publication date	Nov 30, 2021
Grant date	Nov 30, 2021

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and system performing a method that includes a processor(s) obtaining a digital document defining insurance parameters for utilization by a user of a portion of computing resources selected from a group of computing resources comprising the shared computing environment. The processor(s) generates, based on the digital document, parameters defining the portion of the computing resources and risk management rules reflecting guaranteed thresholds for utilization and performance of the portion of the computing resources defined in the digital document. The processor(s) configures a controller in the shared computing environment, based on the parameters and the risk management rules and obtains a notification of a failure in the portion of the computing resources in violation of the risk management rules and details of the failure to determine the extent and impact of the failure. The processor(s) automatically generates a claim package and transmits it to the administrator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
obtaining, by one or more processors, from a computing resource of an administrator of a computing environment, a digital document defining parameters for utilization, by a user, of a portion of computing resources, selected from a group of computing resources comprising the computing environment, wherein the portion of the computing resources comprises physical infrastructure and software-defined infrastructure, wherein the physical infrastructure and software-defined infrastructure is provided as a service by the computing environment;
generating, by the one or more processors, based on the digital document, parameters defining the portion of the computing resources and risk management rules reflecting guaranteed thresholds for utilization and performance of the portion of the computing resources defined in the digital document, wherein the generating parameters and defining risk management rules further comprises:
defining, by the one or more processors, a scope of use for each computing resource of the portion of computing resources, based on the digital document, comprising:
determining, by the one or more processors, dependencies between each computing resource and each other computing resource of the portion of the computing resources;
defining, by the one or more processors, services executed by the user on the portion of the computing resources; and
mapping, by the one or more processors, each service of the services to at least one computing resource of the portion of computing resources;
implementing, by the one or more processors, the defined scopes in the parameters;
defining, by the one or more processors, for each computing resource of the portion of computing resources, a risk profile, wherein the risk profile detects failures in the computing resource when implemented by the controller of the computing environment; and
implementing, by the one or more processors, the defined risk profiles in the risk management rules;
configuring, by the one or more processors, a controller in the computing environment, wherein the controller comprises a resource that is local to the one or more processors, based on the parameters and the risk management rules to provide monitoring of the computing environment based on usage of the user of a portion of computing resources of the computing resources of the computing environment;
based on the configuring, locally monitoring, by the controller, operations from the portion of the computing resources by collecting data from the portion of the computing resources;
determining, by the controller, that a failure defined by the risk management rules has occurred in the monitored portion of the computing resources;
obtaining, by the one or more processors, from the controller, a notification of a failure in the monitored portion of the computing resources in violation of the risk management rules, wherein the notification comprises data logs from the portion of the computing resources;
obtaining, by the one or more processors, from the controller, details of the failure comprising data collected by the controller;
determining, by the one or more processors, from the data collected by the controller and the dependencies between each computing resource and each other computing resource, an extent of the failure and an impact of the failure, wherein determining the extent of the failure comprises conducting a fault-tree analysis based on the dependencies between each computing resource and each other computing resource of the portion of the computing resources, wherein the fault-tree analysis identifies one or more resources in the portion of the computing resources impacted by the failure;
recovering, by the one or more processors, the one or more resources in the portion impacted by the failure, and
automatically tuning, by the one of more processors, the computing environment, based on determining the extended and the impact of the failure.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by the one or more processors, based on the data collected by the controller and the determination, a claim package, wherein the claim package comprises the extent of the failure the portion of the computing resources;
transmitting, by the one or more processors, the claim package, to the computing resource of the administrator, wherein the failure is selected from the group consisting of: a failed resource, a failed event, a result of periodic health audit performed in the computing environment, an interruption due to a network or routing issue, and a configuration change implemented in at least one resource of the portion of the computing resources.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining the extent of the failure and the impact of the failure comprises:
identifying, by the one or more processors, based on analyzing the dependencies, which computing resources of the portion of computing resources were affected by the failure; and
based on identifying the computing resources affected by the failure, determining which services were affected by the failure.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein determining an extent of the failure and the impact of the failure further comprises applying at risk management rules selected from the group consisting of: threshold rules for the monitoring data to raise events based on a failure, and event-correlation rules utilizing the dependencies to assist in determining a root-cause of the failures.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the data collected by the controller is selected from a group consisting of: configuration audits performed on the portion of the computing resources, health events from the portion of the computing resources, and configuration changes made to the portion of the computing resources.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining the notification of the failure further comprises:
receiving, from the controller, data from logs of the portion of the computing resources.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the portion of the computing resources comprises physical infrastructure and software-defined infrastructure.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
analyzing, by the one or more processors, the data collected by the controller collected by the controller; and
determining, by the one or more processors, based on the data collected by the controller and the dependencies between each computing resource and each other computing resource, a root cause of the failure.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by the one or more processors, a report detailing the root cause; and
transmitting, by the one or more processors, the report to the administrator.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the computing environment comprises a shared computing environment.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the shared computing environment comprises a cloud computing environment.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the data collected by the controller comprises raw data.

13. A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium readable by one or more processors and storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors for performing a method comprising:
obtaining, by the one or more processors, from a computing resource of an administrator of a computing environment, a digital document defining parame

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Jhoney Albee
• Krishna Hariharan
• Mani Anbazhagan
• Ramakrishnan Umasuthan

Classifications

• G06Q40/08 Primary

  Insurance · CPC title

• G06F11/079

  Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis (in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36) · CPC title

• G06F11/0772

  Means for error signaling, e.g. using interrupts, exception flags, dedicated error registers · CPC title

• G06F11/0766

  Error or fault reporting or storing · CPC title

• G06F11/0712

  in a virtual computing platform, e.g. logically partitioned systems · CPC title