International Business Machines Corporation

John Koper

Krishna Sastry Garimella

Vinu Sundaresan

Yan Or

Umesh Bellur

Johan Casier

Shashank Joshi

Girard Chandler

A topology of a multitier compute infrastructure is automatically discovered. Discovery can be roughly divided into two phases. In one phase, components and physical relationships are discovered. In the other phase, non-physical relationships between the components are deduced. The second phase typically is based in part on information obtained in the first phase. In one application, the components and relationships that are discovered/deduced are used to build a map of the multitier compute infrastructure.

Automated discovery of a multitier compute infrastructure

A multitier topology map describes a multitier compute infrastructure. The multitier topology map identifies components from at least two different tiers of the multitier compute infrastructure and indicates relationships between components including at least one cross-tier relationship between components. An interface module accesses the multitier topology map.

Topology mapping of a mulitier compute infrastructure

Topology mapping of a multitier compute infrastructure

An application model automates deployment of an application. In one embodiment, the application model includes a static description of the application and a run-time description of the application. Deployment phases, such as installation, configuration and activation of the application are executed according to the application model.

Deployment of applications in a multitier compute infrastructure

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