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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2009
Vitaly Morozov, Irvine, CA (US);
Vitaly Morozov, Irvine, CA (US);
BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An enhanced resource reconciliation process is disclosed to examine the metadata hierarchy of unidentified instances of configuration objects within a particular 'data partition' (sometimes called a dataset) of an enterprise configuration management database (CMDB) and perform reconciliation against a target dataset, such as a golden, i.e., production, dataset. The enhanced reconciliation process could identify against instances in the production dataset that are of the same class as the unidentified instance—as well as instances that come from any 'candidate' classes. Candidate classes could consist of, e.g., classes upstream or downstream from the unidentified instance in the metadata hierarchy. By allowing the specification of one or more reconciliation properties, such as, “identify downstream,” “identify upstream,” “identify upstream and downstream,” or “identify resources of the same class only,” the enhanced resource reconciliation process could perform identification and resource reconciliation against instances of any class in the unidentified instance's metadata hierarchy.