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Eric Wu

Yourong Wang

Jun Wu

Haitao Zhou

Muzhar S Khokhar

Brian R Tetreault

Michael G Varteresian

Jing Ding

Jackson Brandon Myers

Wei Wang

Daniel K O'Reilly, Jr

Minqiang Wu

Robert R Kumlin

Yingyan Zheng

Yujie Xie

Jiangping Sun

Zhidong Mao

Rob P Munsell

Techniques for proactively detecting configuration inconsistencies may include: receiving notification regarding an occurrence of a trigger event in a system, wherein the trigger event is one of a plurality of defined trigger events, and wherein the plurality of defined trigger events include one or more defined time periods; and responsive to receiving the notification, performing first processing including: capturing configuration information describing a current configuration of the system; and performing proactive consistency validation processing of the configuration information that detects inconsistencies between dependent entities of the current configuration. The proactive consistency validation processing may detect inconsistencies between dependent entities of the same type or different types. Metadata may identify dependencies between entities that may exist in a configuration. Responsive to detecting an inconsistency, a suitable action may be taken and/or user notified. The trigger events may include a user trigger, a critical event, and prior to performing an upgrade.

Proactive storage system configuration consistency validation

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving usage and configuration data from a storage system. The usage and configuration data is compared to one or more best practice models to determine one or more recommendations. The one or more recommendations are provided to a user of the storage system.

Best practice system and method

Techniques are described that provide for determining health of a system and its components and may include: receiving a hierarchical structure including a plurality of levels of nodes representing the system and components of the system; performing first processing that calculates an overall score denoting health of the system, wherein the overall score is determined in accordance with a plurality of other scores for the components in the system, the plurality of other scores being associated with nodes of the hierarchical structure; and displaying, in a user interface, the overall score.

Techniques for rating system health

Examples are generally directed towards converting complex structure attributes into flattened data. A configuration capture component analyzes a set of objects associated with a set of complex structure attributes. A complex structure attribute is an attribute of an object that is an array attribute or a nested object attribute. The configuration capture component performs a hash type conversion to convert nested object attributes into flattened data. The configuration capture component performs an array type conversion to convert nested array attributes into flattened data. The flattened data is stored or imported in a set of flattened data files. An expansion component converts the flattened data files back into the complex structure attributes without losing or corrupting the complex structure data.

Converting complex structure objects into flattened data

A technique identifies a version of a software application for installation on computerized equipment. The technique involves receiving an electronic communication containing a software version database which identifies different versions of the software application. The technique further involves performing an update assessment operation based on the software version database to determine whether there exists newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment. The technique further involves providing an electronic notification to a user of the computerized equipment in response to a result of the update assessment operation indicating that there exists newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment. The electronic notification identifies, for installation on the computerized equipment, a particular newer version of the newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment.

Smartly identifying a version of a software application for installation

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