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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2008
Bob Bethke, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Srikanth Natarajan, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Bob Bethke, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Srikanth Natarajan, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of compiling causal rules into continuations for use in root cause analysis of a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, comprising defining observable events occurring on system elements; defining at least one of a cause and a result of each of the events; defining causal rules, each rule describing a causal relationship between an event and one of its cause and its result; and compiling the causal relationships as continuations in a continuation passing style (CPS) for use in analyzing the root cause of subsequent observed events symptomatic of at least one problem on the system.