International Business Machines Corporation

Eric Labadie

David Mark Ogle

Abdolreza Salahshour

Harm Sluiman

John William Sweitzer

Brent Alan Miller

Douglas Andrew Wood

John Kenyon Gerken, Iii

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell

Balan Subramanian

William Pettit Horn

Donald Alexander Bourne

Alan S Boxall

Jason Howard Cornpropst

Heather Marie Kreger

Michael LaVerna Wamboldt

Christine Nancy Knight

Krzysztof R Kobylinski

Gin Yee Ng

Ronald Wessels

Nellie T Klump

Murray James Nesbitt

Madeline Fok

A technique to generically manage extensible correlation data is provided for correlating a series of events. The technique employs a global unique identifier (GUID) for identifying an event and uses the GUID as a key to associate one or more extensible correlators of correlation data. A transport correlator may be configured to transport the GUID for associating with a GUID of a second event such that a small and fixed amount of data is passed by the communications layer providing the transport, minimally impacting communications. An arbitrary amount of data may be logged and keyed with the GUID, providing optimization and flexibility.

Technique to generically manage extensible correlation data

An autonomic computing system may include an autonomic manager and a knowledge source accessible by the autonomic manager and any other entities associated with the autonomic computing system. The knowledge source may include a service interface adapted for the autonomic manager to access the knowledge source. The knowledge source may also include a multiplicity of knowledge elements.

Scope and distribution of knowledge in an autonomic computing system

The present invention provides failure recognition, notification, and prevention for learning and self-healing capabilities in a monitored system. A system to collect monitoring data is monitored. A failure of the system is detected; A failure point for the detected failure in a data space defined by the monitoring data is identified and at least one predefined action with the identified failure point is associated. This process is repeated for a plurality of system failures. When a state of the system is determined to be approaching an identified failure point, the at least one predefined action associated with that identified failure point is performed.

Failure recognition, notification, and prevention for learning and self-healing capabilities in a monitored system

Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method for managing log information. The method comprising, responsive to receiving a request to discover log information, and invoking a set discovery agents to discover the log information for logs located on a set of managed nodes. The method further identifies the log information on the set of managed nodes using the set of discovery agents and stores the log information in a repository knowledge base containing log information.

Log location discovery and management

Problems are resolved in a business process that includes application programs that run on an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure having IT components. A symptom is generated that identifies a problem in the business process. Selected application programs and/or IT components in the IT infrastructure that may cause the problem in the business process are identified, based on the symptom. A respective situation for a respective selected application program and/or IT component is obtained. The respective situation is one of a set of component-independent predefined situation categories that is associated with a respective selected application program and/or IT component. The respective situations provide the status of the selected application programs and/or IT components in a common situation format that includes the associated one of the component-independent predefined situation categories. The respective situations that are obtained are analyzed to identify at least one problem in the selected application programs and/or IT components that may cause the problem in the business process.

Resolving problems in a business process utilizing a situational representation of component status

A system for remotely debugging application code on client/server systems. The system comprises a kicker program and a debugging engine installed on the server and a debugging user interface installed on a client machine. When a call is made to the application code on the server machine, the kicker program starts the debugging engine to debug the application code. The kicker program stops the debugging engine when the application code has been stepped through or returns. The debugging engine includes means for remotely starting the debugging user interface installed on the client machine.

System for remote debugging of client/server application

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