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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2010
Applicants:

Bart Oostlander, Northville, MI (US);

William Noble, South Lyon, MI (US);

Bryce Dunn, Royal Oak, MI (US);

Murali Mogalayapalli, Novi, MI (US);

Stephen Kowal, Novi, MI (US);

Inventors:

Bart Oostlander, Northville, MI (US);

William Noble, South Lyon, MI (US);

Bryce Dunn, Royal Oak, MI (US);

Murali Mogalayapalli, Novi, MI (US);

Stephen Kowal, Novi, MI (US);

Assignee:

Compuware Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An automated method is provided for constructing or updating a service model that defines the entities in an enterprise's computing environment. The method includes: defining a group of templates for updating the service model, where the group of templates identify different types of entities which comprise the service model and relationships between the types of entities including an entity that links software applications to respective computing infrastructure that supports the software applications; monitoring messages received from monitoring tools residing in the computing environment; and updating a service model in accordance with the group of templates using data encapsulated in the messages.


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