IT Infrastructure Update via Adaptor Simulation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Updating information technology infrastructures is challenging due to their complexity and the need to manage and process large amounts of data without disrupting ongoing operations.
Innovation Solution
An operations management environment is integrated with the IT infrastructure through an adaptor, allowing for non-destructive monitoring and updating by modeling relationships between artifacts, simulating proposed modifications, and pushing modifications through a message bus while the infrastructure performs tasks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the information technology infrastructure is updated by directly modifying artifacts, then the infrastructure can adapt to external changes, but the complexity of relationships among artifacts makes the updating process challenging and disruptive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an operations management environment as an intermediary layer between external change requirements and the IT infrastructure artifacts. This environment models relationships among artifacts, simulates proposed modifications, and manages updates non-destructively, thereby resolving the complexity of direct modifications while maintaining adaptability.
2Productivity
If the information technology infrastructure is updated while performing tasks, then ongoing operations continue without disruption, but the complexity of managing and processing large amounts of data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by simulating proposed modifications in the operations management environment before actually applying them to the infrastructure. This allows the system to prepare and validate update logic in advance, enabling safe non-destructive updates during ongoing operations without overwhelming complexity in data management.
3Reliability
If proposed modifications are simulated using modeled relationships, then the response of artifacts can be monitored to determine implementation success, but the time required for simulation increases the update cycle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where the operations management environment monitors the response of artifacts to simulated modifications and uses this information to determine whether the proposed modification successfully implements the external change. This feedback loop ensures reliability while the simulation itself is performed efficiently to minimize time loss.
Data Source
AI summary
An operations management environment is integrated with an information technology infrastructure through an adaptor, the integration occurring while the information technology infrastructure performs one or more tasks. Data from the information technology infrastructure is received through the adapter. Relationships between the artifacts included in the information technology infrastructure are modeled based on the received data. A proposed modification to the information technology infrastructure is determined based on an external change. While the information technology infrastructure performs the one or more tasks, the response of the artifacts to the proposed modification is simulated using the modeled relationships. The response of the artifacts is monitored to determine if the proposed modification implements the external change. A modification is generated based on the proposed modification if the proposed modification implements the external change, and the information technology infrastructure is updated while the information technology infrastructure performs the one or more tasks.