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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Michael Paul Dehaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Karstan Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Kelby Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Paul DeHaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Karstan Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Kelby Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatic discovery of network software relationships. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management platform communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management platform can issue a set of discovery commands interrogating nodes of the network to report software or services which they consume. The network management platform can build a dependency map encoding the dependency or other relationships between nodes in the managed network based on their use of software resources. Network restorations can therefore be conducted in a rational order, maintaining stability in the restored nodes and network.