International Business Machines Corporation

Martine Bruce Wedlake

Arthur John Colvig

Stephen F Correl

Timothy James Crawford

Catherine Moriarty Nunez

Ross E Hagglund

Krishna Harathi

Nitu M Shinde

Mark Charles Davis

James Patrick Smith

Avishai Haim Hochberg

Kevin Lee Gibble

James John Seeger, Jr

Jean Xu Yu

Sunil Bharadwaj

David George Derk

Aaron Amauba

Kevin T Hsieh

Todd W Bates

Ashitha B Mollera

Sean P Cox

Steven V Voyk

Provided are techniques for exploiting object tags in order to produce a work order across several backup engines for a backup job. A selection of tags for an object is received. A work order for the object is created using the tags. The work order is stored with a virtual server that stores the object, wherein a data mover of a backup engine retrieves the work order from the virtual server to back up the object.

Exploiting object tags to produce a work order across backup engines for a backup job

A hover section is displayed upon a GUI following the lapse of a hover grace period interval that is dynamically adjusted. A default hover grace period interval is set and increasing if a hover display module determines manipulations of the GUI indicate the hover section was displayed in error and is decreased if the hover display module receives a decrease hover grace period interval event. By dynamically adjusting the grace period interval, future hover sections may be displayed to better reflect the GUI user's intent.

Dynamic hover grace period

A system includes a recording interface configured for receiving tagged information for recording system interactions. A recording module is configured for communicating with the recording interface and for recording the system interactions from a first computing environment between at least one application and a common component based on the tagged information. A repository is configured for storing the recorded system interactions. A playback interface is configured for retrieving a portion of the stored system interactions from the repository and playing back the retrieved portion of system interactions for simulating system interactions for a second computing environment.

Recording and playback of system interactions in different system environments

Described is a method and system for transparently migrating data between storage systems of a computing environment without disrupting realtime access to the stored data of the storage systems. Specifically, when adding a new storage system to the computing environment, realtime data write operations can be redirected to the new storage system instead of an existing storage system. During the redirection, the data stored on the existing storage system can be accessed for data operations. Concurrently, during the redirection, data stored on the existing storage system can be migrated to the new storage system. When the data migration completes and all the data, stored on the existing storage system prior to the redirection, resides on the new storage system, the new storage system can function as the primary storage system. Thus, storage capacity can increase or be replaced without disrupting data operations.

Transparent data migration within a computing environment

A method and apparatus are provided for managing logging data communications in a computer system. The computer system is configured with a proxy agent in communication with a client machine and storage, and an embedded agent in communication with the proxy agent and the client machine. All inbound communications from the client machine to the storage are maintained in a log local to the proxy agent. However, all outbound communications are split between two different communications paths, with one outbound path from the storage directly to the client machine and a second outbound path from the storage to the client machine via the proxy agent. One of the two outbound paths is selected based upon one or more of the characteristics of the associated communication.

Audit logging and role based security using one way proxy architecture

An information technology (IT) environment includes IT managed resources in which the resources are abstracted using a model. In response to determining that a request for information received from a client is non-optimal in terms of processing the request, a first hint can be constructed that indicates how future requests are to be formulated by the client so that they are more optimal in terms of processing the future requests. In response to determining that the information is internally structured non-optimally in terms of processing the request, a second hint can be constructed that indicates how the information is to be internally structured more optimally in terms of processing future requests. In response to determining that processing the request will be non-optimal, a third hint can be constructed relating to a characteristic that results in non-optimal processing of the request, and logged within a hint log for offline analysis.

Generating hints for more optimal processing of requests for information within an environment in which resources are abstracted using a model

A Common Information Model (CIM) agent notifies a CIM consumer that the CIM agent is able to receive notifications from the CIM consumer relating to errors within data relating to a CIM managed component and sent by the CIM agent to the CIM consumer. The CIM consumer receives the data relating to the CIM managed component from the CIM agent. The CIM managed component is a hardware component or a component. In response to the CIM consumer detecting that the data relating to the CIM managed component contains errors, the CIM consumer notifies the CIM agent. In response, the CIM agent initiates an automated recovery process in relation to the CIM managed component, without manual user interaction. The CIM agent may then continue to send data relating to the CIM managed component to the CIM consumer.

Automated recovery process initiation for data consumers of a common information model (CIM) managed component

A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing service access control for a user interface is disclosed. A service secret is combined with a user access code, such as a user ID/password. A system can extract the service secret and determine whether access to service functions should be allowed to provide authentication and authorization for service interface access in secure manner.

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing service access control for a user interface

A method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a plurality of references to a plurality of files corresponding to a plurality of devices are stored in a data structure implemented in a computational device, wherein the computational device is coupled to the plurality of devices via a network. Access is enabled to the data structure to a distributed application, wherein the distributed application uses a stored reference in the data structure to determine a file corresponding to a device, and wherein the distributed application performs data transfer operations with the device via the determined file.

Method, system, and article of manufacture for storing device information

One example of this invention defines a new interface to the CIM client API that is more generic than the current standard CIM client API that clients can use for the case where they want to find all relationships between instances of A and B. The method would implement several different ways to retrieve the relationships between A and B. CIM has a concept of a qualifier, which is a tag that can be applied to supply any additional information. The provider could define in the qualifier for each association class which algorithm they think is most efficient, and the implementation of the new interface would use whichever algorithm the qualifier says will be most efficient.

Association traversal translation for common information model

The configuration of servers using profile templates is disclosed. A profile template for configuring one or more servers is loaded. The profile template includes abstracted server configuration parameters and server configuration rules, and can be abstracted from parent profile templates. The parameters are for abstractly configuring a server type of which the servers are, whereas the rules specify how values of the parameters translate to direct server values for directly configuring the servers, based on attributes of the servers. A user is requested to modify preset of the parameters, and/or enter missing values of the parameters. Finally, a configuration for each server is generated as the values of the parameters, and the server configuration rules.

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Martine Bruce Wedlake