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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Enrica Alberti, Rome, IT;
Riccardo Rossi, Rome, IT;
Antonio Secomandi, Milan, IT;
Michele Tomassi, Rome, IT;
Viviana Tripodi, Rome, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for managing computing machines. The method includes accessing a catalog storing component signatures for discovering corresponding software components and, for each software application, an indication of the software components belonging to the software application and connection signatures for detecting corresponding connections between the software components, discovering the software components instantiated in a software image according to the corresponding component signatures, detecting the connections each one being established between instantiated software components of different computing machines according to the corresponding connection signatures, associating each software image with a software deployment of the software application of each established connection of the software image, receiving a restore command for restoring a target recovery point selected among recovery points, each recovery point comprising a previously taken snapshot of each software image of the software deployments being overlapped, and restoring the target recovery point by restoring the snapshots on the corresponding computing machines.