Automated Network Configuration Best Practice Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Integrating diverse hardware and software entities in a networked system is challenging due to compatibility issues, requiring extensive manual analysis and increasing costs, as existing methods struggle to automatically generate best practices for configuration.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that automatically identify problematic entities and their associated attributes within a networked system, determining correlations to generate best practices for avoiding configuration issues by analyzing configuration data and problem reports.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual analysis by technical experts is used to examine configuration issues, then accuracy in determining best practices is improved, but time consumption and costs increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy in determining best practicesVSAvoidtime consumption for analysis

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical analysis process performed by technical experts with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to analyze configuration data, identify problematic entities, and generate best practices. This substitution maintains accuracy while dramatically reducing time consumption and costs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service automation where the computer automatically performs the entire analysis process without requiring human experts. The system identifies configuration problems, determines contributing entities and attributes, and generates best practices autonomously, freeing technical experts from routine analysis tasks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If diverse hardware and software products are integrated in the networked system, then versatility and functionality are improved, but compatibility issues and configuration problems increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegration of diverse productsVSAvoidcompatibility and configuration stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism that automatically monitors configuration data from diverse networked entities, identifies compatibility issues and problematic patterns, and generates best practices to prevent future problems. This continuous feedback loop maintains reliability despite the diversity of integrated products.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of configuration data to identify potential compatibility issues before they manifest as actual problems. By determining best practices in advance based on analyzed patterns, the system prevents configuration issues before they occur, maintaining stability in diverse environments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If extensive configuration settings and attributes are analyzed to identify problem contributors, then precision in diagnosing issues is improved, but complexity of the analysis process increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprecision in identifying problem contributorsVSAvoidcomplexity of analysis process

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex analysis process into distinct automated steps: identifying configuration problems, determining problematic entities, analyzing associated entities, classifying contributing attributes, and generating best practices. This segmentation manages complexity while maintaining precision through systematic automated processing of each segment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS7752287B2Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically generating best practices for configuring a networked system

Publication Date: 2010.07.06 X CORP

AI summary

A method, system, and computer program product for automatically generating best practices for configuring a networked system of entities are provided. The method includes identifying a networked system configuration problem and determining a set of problematic entities. The set of problematic entities includes the entities reporting the networked system configuration problem. The method further includes determining a set of problem associated entities, where the set of problem associated entities includes the entities with a common association having a strongest correlation to the set of problematic entities. The method additionally includes classifying the set of problem associated entities on an attribute basis to determine one or more attributes of the entities that contribute to the networked system configuration problem, and reporting the best practices for configuring the networked system of entities as avoiding the one or more attributes of the entities that contribute to the networked system configuration problem.