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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Bangalore, IN;
Vasundhara Gurunath, Bangalore, IN;
Ushadevi Hassan Nagaraja, Bangalore, IN;
Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Bangalore, IN;
Vasundhara Gurunath, Bangalore, IN;
Ushadevi Hassan Nagaraja, Bangalore, IN;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for determining device criticality in a computer system comprising the steps of building a component hierarchy graph using computer configuration information; labeling the nodes of component hierarchy graph with redundancy attribute; traversing the component hierarchy graph; and determining whether the device loses an access path by inspecting the redundancy attributes within the component hierarchy graph. Furthermore, one of a plurality of severity levels is assigned to each identified affected resource based on predetermined criteria. The severity levels include a low severity level, a medium severity level, and a high severity level. Each severity level represents degree of impact to the computer system if functionality of the identified affected resource became unavailable.