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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Patrick J. Brooks, Toronto, CA;
Andrew J. Greff, Stoufville, CA;
Stewart J. Hyman, Toronto, CA;
Artur Keizner, North York, CA;
Patrick J. Brooks, Toronto, CA;
Andrew J. Greff, Stoufville, CA;
Stewart J. Hyman, Toronto, CA;
Artur Keizner, North York, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various aspects of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and software for selecting interconnectivity rules for a computer network environment and visualization on a display of a data processing system interconnectivity rules in an auto provisioning environment, including: selecting a network environment specification having characteristics describing the environment, the characteristics including: number of network security tiers, firewalls, and other network constraints; displaying a graphical representation of the selected network environment, including security tiers, and proposed firewalls, to a user on the display; selecting network objects for the selected network environment, the network objects being selected from a group of objects including: operating systems and other software applications having predefined or configurable characteristics including interconnectivity rules, and firewall rules; populating the displayed network environment with the selected objects; determining network interconnectivity requirements in the selected network environment for the selected objects from their characteristics; and displaying graphical visualizations of the selected objects and graphical visualizations of the network interconnectivity requirements of the objects in appropriate regions of the displayed network environment.