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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
Jörn Schimmelpfeng, Herrenberg, DE;
Jörn Schimmelpfeng, Herrenberg, DE;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided of retrieving a configuration record from a configuration management database pertaining to an IT-infrastructure including host devices, a configuration record having attributes and assigned attribute values, the IT-infrastructure being managed by an operation management system providing messages indicating events in the IT-infrastructure. The method includes providing a message including a set of unidentified attribute values and an identified host value, retrieving from the configuration management database one or more configuration records containing the identified host value, and selecting from the one or more retrieved configuration records a configuration record depending on the number of matches between the unidentified attribute values and the attribute values of the retrieved configuration records.