Taking configuration management data and change business process data into account with regard to authorization and authentication rules

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990957-B2
Application number	US-201313764551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2013
Priority date	May 20, 2010
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

An approach receives a request from a user, typically a change implementer, on a computer system. The request includes a user identifier and a requested action. A current timestamp corresponding to a computer system clock is retrieved. Scheduled changes are retrieved from a data store accessible by the processor. The current timestamp is compared to the scheduled change periods. The requested action is allowed if the comparison reveals that the current timestamp is within one of the retrieved scheduled changes, and the requested action is denied if the comparison reveals that the current timestamp is outside of the retrieved scheduled change periods.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processor-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request, wherein the request includes a user identifier, a system identifier, and a requested command, wherein the requested command comprises a command to be executed on a system corresponding to the system identifier;
retrieving one or more scheduled change periods from a data store accessible by the processor, wherein the retrieved scheduled change periods correspond to the system identifier include…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Aggarwal Vijay Kumar
• Dickerson Scott Stephen
• Holley Adam Reudeau

Classifications

• H04L9/3297 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/20 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic