International Business Machines Corporation

Sampath Kumar Chilukuri

Joan LaVerne Mitchell

David Ward

Sandra K Johnson

Anil Kumar Thiramdas

Sharad Mishra

Darbha V Kumar

Benjamin J Stoor

Sanjay Mundergi

Kalpana Doraisamy

Garadi Shashidhar Hemanth Kumar

A mechanism for locating information about a target entity in disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories. Upon occurrence of an event associated with a target entity comprising an information technology solution, disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories are searched for metadata about the target entity. A determination is made from the metadata about the target entity whether the repositories comprise entities related to the target entity. If so, links in the metadata are used to search the repositories to locate the related entities. Upon locating a resolution to the event in the repositories, a link to the resolution is stored in the metadata. The repositories are also searched to determine owners of the target entity and related entities, and these owners are then notified of the event and the resolution to the event.

Leveraging multilevel hierarchical associations to find cross-boundary issues

An example of this presentation deals with the way the events emitted from a component can be grouped from the development phase, so that when the problem occurs in the production environment, the problem could be tracked easily and analyzed. The embodiment deals with the program having multiple separate paths for execution. The execution path could be the normal flow of events grouped together (and generating a key to represent the normal flow). The other execution paths could represent the alternate flows, also grouped, and a key is generated to represent which one is deviated from normal flow. The database stores the key and the relative event flow information, which indicates the grouped events. The lookup viewer can be provided for viewing the normal and alternate flows, since the event has been logged as keys. A 'Key' is a hash on the static content of the events, which is used to identify a particular start and end of the functionality in a flow of execution.

Reducing log entries using hash keys

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Karnataka, India

Sampath Kumar Chilukuri