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Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

May. 08, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Xiao Ling Chen, Beijing, CN;

Xue Feng Gao, Beijing, CN;

Fei Li, Beijing, CN;

Ren Yi Ruan, Beijing, CN;

Qing Feng Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 41/0636 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 41/0686 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method and program product for managing incidents in a complex IT environment. A system is described that includes: a discovery module that analyzes an IT infrastructure and generates a topology of components and users; a monitoring module that compares ongoing activities of the IT infrastructure with a pattern repository to identify potential problems; a relationship manager that generates relationship maps of components and users based on the topology, determines whether an identified potential problem comprises an incident, and in response to detecting an incident: correlates the incident with a root cause, and determines a responsible admin and set of impacted users based on the relationship maps; and an operation engine that notifies the responsible admin and set of impacted users of the incident.


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