International Business Machines Corporation

Rajeev Puri

Manish Satyapal Gupta

Sai Zeng

Shang Qing Guo

Naga A Ayachitula

Frederick Y Wu

Cashchakanithara Venugopal

Daniela Rosu

Ramesh S Palakodeti

Erik Rueger

Bo Yang

Larisa Shwartz

Ying Li

Cheranellore Vasudevan

Yaoping Ruan

Anees Abdul Shaikh

Constantin Mircea Adam

Chitra Dorai

Gopal Sarma Pingali

Yixin Diao

Joel W Branch

Amitkumar Manoharrao Paradkar

Mickey Iqbal

Thomas Allen Snellgrove

Li Jun Xia

Josephine E Justin

Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

William J Hladik, Jr

Tomas Krojzl

Kenneth David Christiance

William A Lemke

Hsiao Choong Thio

Emi K Olsson

Peter M Jensen

Ann M Moyer

Ramesh Kumar Goel

Lisa Nayak

Chetna Dnyandeo Warade

Robert A Larsen

Susan Mary Guy

Vijaya Jas

John Fortelny

Mark W Zeininger

Paul E Finkelstein

Nelson Velazquez

H Choong Thio

Cashchakanith Venugopal

Kelly Ann Washburn

Rambabu Parvatina

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for color reconstruction of individual detected objects of an underwater image using a library of reference images. The method includes one or more processors obtaining image data of a computing device that includes an underwater image. The method further includes determining a depth measurement corresponding to the underwater image. The method further includes identifying an object of the underwater image based at least in part on a shape of the object. The method further includes reconstructing one or more colors of the object of the underwater image based at least in part on a reference image.

Under water image color correction

Managing network asset incidents by receiving historical network asset incident data, analyzing the historical network asset incident data to correlate incident occurrence, receiving real time network asset incident data, generating a list of network assets predicted to be affected by a real time incident, in response to receiving the real time network asset incident data, monitoring the list of network assets, and remediating a network incident for a listed network asset.

Managing network system incidents

It is determined whether a user is authorized to carry out a management operation on a plurality of information technology assets in parallel, based on a role of the user and at least one characteristic of the management operation. A risk level of the management operation, and at least one characteristic of the plurality of information technology assets, are both determined. Based on the risk level and the at least one characteristic of the plurality of information technology assets, an execution pattern for the management operation is specified. In at least some cases, the management operation is carried out on the plurality of information technology assets in parallel, in accordance with the execution pattern.

Managing risk in multi-node automation of endpoint management

A method and associated system. A patching schedule is generated by scheduling, in W sequential time windows, P patches applicable to virtual machines in L redundancy groups. Each redundancy group includes virtual machines and independently belongs to a respective software application x of X software applications, wherein P&#x2265;1, L&#x2265;1, R&#x2265;1, and X&#x2265;1. The L redundancy groups collectively comprise at least 2 virtual machines. The scheduling determines xfor T tuples (w, m, k) defined by (w=1, . . . , W) and (m=1, . . . , L) and (k=1, . . . , R), by maximizing an objective function subject to constraints. Determining xincludes setting x=1 if virtual machine k in redundancy group m is to be patched in time window w or setting x=0 otherwise.

Patching of virtual machines within sequential time windows

A method for predicting a computerized service delivery organization workload including collecting data of a computer implementing service delivery routine including overlapping samples of load values, overlapping samples of performance values, overlapping samples of event outputs, ticket values and ticket volumes, building a first correlation of said load values with said performance values for predicting new performance values based on new data, building a second correlation of said performance values with said event outputs, said ticket values and said ticket volumes, combining said first and second correlations into a third correlation for correlating said load values with a ticket volume and an event volume, and determining at least one projected event volume or projected ticket volume value using said third correlation and at least one projected load value of said computer.

Predicting service delivery metrics using system performance data

A method and associated system for patching virtual machines in L redundancy groups in accordance with a patching schedule. The patching schedule is generated by scheduling, in W sequential time windows, P patches applicable to the virtual machines. Each redundancy group includes virtual machines and independently belongs to a respective software application x of X software applications, wherein P&#x2267;1, L&#x2267;1, R&#x2267;1, and X&#x2267;1. The L redundancy groups collectively comprise at least 2 virtual machines. The scheduling determines xfor T tuples (w, m, k) defined by (w=1, . . . , W) and (m=1, . . . , L) and (k=1, . . . , R), by maximizing an objective function subject to constraints. Determining xincludes setting x=1 if virtual machine k in redundancy group m is to be patched in time window w or setting x=0 otherwise.

In a method for provisioning a virtual machine, a processor rates a plurality of software images that include a first software image and a second software image. A processor provisions the virtual machine with the first software image in a first state and the second software image in a second state, wherein the second software image is rated higher than the first software image.

Template provisioning in virtualized environments

Distributed execution of commands and scripts may comprise a script execution manager having access to a library of executable objects comprising at least one or more of commands or scripts or combination of commands and scripts. A script execution console may be operable to present a graphical user interface for selecting an executable object from the library to execute and for selecting one or more managed computers, on which to execute the selected executable object. The script execution console may be further operable to present a dynamically updated collation of results from execution of the selected executable object. One or more script execution agents may be operable to run on the selected respective one or more managed computers and further operable to communicate with the script execution manager.

Automated, controlled distribution and execution of commands and scripts

A computer hardware-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product manages software patches. A computer monitoring hardware system receives a notification of a new release of a software patch. The computer monitoring hardware system scores a security posture of a monitored computer system to generate a security posture value based on a set of computer system parameters for the monitored computer system. In response to patch control logic within the computer monitoring hardware system determining that the monitored computer system is authorized to install the software patch and that the security posture value exceeds the predetermined value, the computer monitoring hardware system retrieves and installs the software patch in the monitored computer system.

Managing software patch installations

In a method for making a recommendation for installing a software patch on a target computer, a computer identifies a first and a second set of computers from a group of computers. Each computer in the first set has hardware and software components, which are identical to each other or differ from each other by less than a predetermined measure. Each computer in the second set has hardware and software components, which are identical to each other or differ from each other by less than a predetermined measure. The computer selects one of the first and the second sets of computers such that the selected set of computers includes a higher number of computers with the software patch already installed.

Determining best practices for applying computer software patches

A method, system, and article for autonomizing autonomic management of a data center, with the data center having at least one computer system and an associated component. Data is collected from the data center and used as input to identify a data center policy. A set of capabilities of elements of the data center are detected and cataloged based upon the collected data. At least one policy is dynamically selected from at least one set of master policies in a policy directory with the selected policy to support the cataloged capabilities of the data center, and to dynamically control selective application and to adapt parameters for quality of service. The selected policy is applied to manage the data center.

Dynamic control of autonomic management of a data center

A system, program product, and method are provided for copying a virtual machine image. An image library comprising a plurality of system images is provided by a target data processing system. A source image selection is received at the target data processing system. A given image from the image library is selected by the target system based on the received source image. The selected given image is transformed into a copy of the virtual machine image by receiving blocks from a source system that are part of the virtual machine image but not a part of the selected given image, such that only the blocks missing from the selected given image are transferred from the source system to the target system in order to form the copy of the virtual machine image. The source image is preferably a virtual data processing system image.

Accelerate copying of virtual machine images

Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for an operating system image source need to be updated, such as by crawling a vendor website. Embodiments may also include in response to determining that device driver updates need to be downloaded, scheduling a time for download of device driver updates. Embodiments of the method may also include downloading the scheduled device driver updates based on the scheduled time and storing the device driver updates in a device driver update database. Further embodiments of the method may include installing the operating system image source on a target server and installing the device driver updates on the target server.

Automated operating system device driver updating system

A method for detecting a failure in a computing system and for restoring the system is provided. The method comprises providing a system connected to a network communications channel, creating, using a configured backup automation tool, a full system backup image and incremental archive logs of the system before attempting to remotely install software on the system and executing a point-in-time detection and restoration tool configured to detect a system failure when attempting to remotely install software on the system and, if the system failure is detected, to restore the system to a desired restoration point before the system failure occurred, using the full system backup image and incremental archive logs created of the system.

Method, apparatus and program product for a point-in-time recovery of a computing system

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Rajeev Puri