System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Automatically Capturing Configuration Information for a Plurality of Computer Components, Such as a Converged Infrastructure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016337186-A1
Application number	US-201514709103-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 11, 2015
Priority date	May 11, 2015
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for automatically capturing configuration information for a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, such as a converged infrastructure. For example, the method detects a configuration change request comprising a request to change a configuration of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components. Responsive to detecting the configuration change request, the method determines configuration information for each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components, the configuration information is information being about the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components The method determines the configuration information prior to changing the configuration of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components in response to the configuration change request. The method aggregates the configuration information for each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components and stores the aggregated configuration information in a data store.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer program product for automatically capturing configuration information for a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:
detecting a configuration change request, the configuration change request comprising a request to change a configuration of one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; responsive to detecting the configuration change request, determining configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, wherein the configuration information is information about the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, and wherein the configuration information is determined prior to changing the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components in response to the configuration change request; aggregating the configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; and storing, in a data store, the aggregated configuration information.

2 . The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is selected from the group consist of a network device, a storage device, a compute server, and a virtual machine.

3 . The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is a converged infrastructure.

4 . The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the configuration information for each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is determined via an application programming interface to each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components.

5 . The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein in the data store is a version control repository.

6 . The computer program product of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing an application programming interface for querying the data store of aggregated configuration information.

7 . A computer implemented method for automatically capturing configuration information for a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, the method comprising:
detecting a configuration change request, the configuration change request comprising a request to change a configuration of one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; responsive to detecting the configuration change request, determining configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, wherein the configuration information is information about the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, and wherein the configuration information is determined prior to changing the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components in response to the configuration change request; aggregating the configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; and storing, in a data store, the aggregated configuration information.

8 . The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is selected from the group consist of a network device, a storage device, a compute server, and a virtual machine.

9 . The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is a converged infrastructure.

10 . The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the configuration information for each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is determined via an application programming interface to each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components.

11 . The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein in the data store is a version control repository.

12 . The computer implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
providing an application programming interface for querying the data store of aggregated configuration information

13 . A computer implemented system for automatically capturing configuration information for a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, the system comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the system to at least: detect a configuration change request, the configuration change request comprising a request to change a configuration of one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; responsive to detecting the configuration change request, determine configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, wherein the configuration information is information about the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components, and wherein the configuration information is determined prior to changing the configuration of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components in response to the configuration change request; aggregate the configuration information for each of the one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous computing components; and store, in a data store, the aggregated configuration information.

14 . The computer implemented system of claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is selected from the group consist of a network device, a storage device, a compute server, and a virtual machine.

15 . The computer implemented system of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is a converged infrastructure.

16 . The computer implemented system of claim 13 , wherein the configuration information for each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components is determined via an application programming interface to each of the plurality of heterogeneous computing components.

17 . The computer implemented system of claim 13 , wherein in the data store is a version control repository.

18 . The computer implemented system of claim 13 , wherein the wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to further cause the system to:
provides an application programming interface for querying the data store of aggregated configuration information.

Assignees

• Vce Co Llc

Inventors

• Dolinsky Toddy
• Chen Ta-Ming
• Pasumarthi Anil

Classifications

• H04L41/0856

  by backing up or archiving configuration information · CPC title

• H04L41/0853

  by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information · CPC title

• H04L41/0816 Primary

  the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events · CPC title