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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2007
Geert DE Peuter, Turnhout, BE;
David Bonnell, Reading, GB;
Geert De Peuter, Turnhout, BE;
David Bonnell, Reading, GB;
BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, system and medium for efficiently propagating service impact data in a directed acyclic graph. One or more service components, impact rules and business rules will be grouped together into a directed acyclic graph and a related metadata array. Impact propagation uses related metadata array to minimize traversal of the graph. As nodes of the graph are updated to propagate impact data a determination is made as to when no further impact propagation is required and calculations are terminated without having to traverse the entire graph. This method will allow a system or business administrator to maintain real-time notification and visualization of, the impacted state of all objects in the graph.