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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2009
Naga A. Ayachitula, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Melissa J. Buco, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Krishna S. Garimella, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lalitha P. Kamesam, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
David Loewenstern, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Larisa Shwartz, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Maheswaran Surenda, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Christopher Ward, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Naga A. Ayachitula, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Melissa J. Buco, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Krishna S. Garimella, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lalitha P. Kamesam, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
David Loewenstern, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Larisa Shwartz, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Maheswaran Surenda, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Christopher Ward, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for performing information transformations on an information stream composed of configuration items (CIs) for improving data quality and extending the capabilities of a configuration management database (CMDB). In one embodiment the data transformations ensure that a CMDB can be used to manage environments that use Network Address Translation by the modification of the signatures of analyzed CIs so that the resulting set of CIs is unique. The modification is applied to augment the signature with a domain specific prefix so that, when loaded into the enterprise wide CMDB, a CI is uniquely identified.