Meta-directory Event Control for IT Infrastructure Complexity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprises face challenges in managing and understanding the increasing amount of diagnostic information from diverse hardware devices and software services, which complicates the identification of issues within their IT infrastructure, often leading to wasted time in troubleshooting due to the complexity of relationships between devices and events.
Innovation Solution
A meta-directory control and evaluation system that collects events from heterogeneous environments, organizes them into taxonomies, assigns them to nodes representing resource relationships, and evaluates these events to trigger automated actions, notifications, and policy updates, enabling proactive problem detection and resolution without manual intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises maintain a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure with multiple devices and services, then the functionality and capabilities of the infrastructure are improved, but the complexity of managing and understanding diagnostic information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that sits between the diverse IT infrastructure devices and the monitoring/management tools. This intermediary standardizes and normalizes diagnostic information from multiple sources into a common format, making it easier to manage and analyze without requiring enterprises to directly handle the complexity of each individual device's proprietary formats and protocols.
2Reliability
If enterprises collect and monitor diagnostic information from all devices, then the ability to detect issues is improved, but the time and resources required to evaluate and troubleshoot problems increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining relationships between devices and services in a meta-directory structure before problems occur. It also pre-norms diagnostic information formats and establishes baseline thresholds for normal operation. When issues arise, the system can immediately compare current states against pre-established relationships and thresholds, significantly reducing troubleshooting time compared to analyzing raw data without pre-configured context.
3Measurement precision
If enterprises use specialized monitoring tools for each device type, then the precision of device-specific monitoring is improved, but the overall system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal monitoring framework that can handle multiple device types and protocols through a single system. The meta-directory structure and normalization layer enable one monitoring tool to effectively monitor diverse devices (servers, storage, networks, applications) by translating their specific metrics into a unified model, eliminating the need for separate specialized tools for each device type while maintaining monitoring precision.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for meta-directory control and evaluation of events are provided. Disparate events from heterogeneous processing environments are collected as the events are produced by resources within the processing environments. The events are filtered and organized into taxonomies. Next the filtered and organized events are assigned to nodes of a Meta directory, each node defining a relationship between two or more of the resources and policy is applied. Finally, additional policy is evaluated in view of the events and their node assignments with other events, and one or more automated actions are then taken.