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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Damiano Bassani, Rome, IT;

Antonio Di Cocco, Rome, IT;

Pasquale Maria Mascolo Montenero, Barletta, IT;

Paolo Ottaviano, Rome, IT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 11/3006 (2013.01); G06F 11/3055 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for maintaining a computing system comprising a plurality of computing nodes is disclosed. The method comprises causing an application of a maintenance activity concurrently on a maintenance subset of the computing nodes not exceeding a limit number, monitoring one or more status indicators of the computing system during the application of the maintenance activity and updating the limit number according to the status indicators. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also disclosed. Moreover, a corresponding control computing machine is disclosed.


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