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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
Brian Robert Matthiesen, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Brian Robert Matthiesen, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, a system and a computer program product for analyzing the effect of a software maintenance patch on configuration items of a CMDB. One embodiment, directed to a method, is associated with a CMDB containing information that relates to configuration items (CIs) included in one or more managed configurable systems. The method includes the step of generating a manifest that defines a target system, and contains a description of a maintenance patch disposed to update one or more specified software components. The method further includes using information contained in the manifest to search the CMDB, in order to detect each configurable system in the CMDB that corresponds to the definition of the target system, and contains at least one CI that includes at least one of the specified software components. For a given CI that includes at least one of the specified software components, an identification is made of every other CI in the CMDB that would be affected, if the maintenance patch was used to update each specified software component of the given CI.