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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2014
Bmc Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Kia Behnia, Burlingame, CA (US);
Douglas Mueller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
BMC SOFTWARE, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Task implementation tools are registered to interface with a change management tool. The change management tool configures a plurality of tasks to implement a change to an information technology infrastructure's configuration, and sends a plurality of task instructions to the plurality of task implementation tools for performing the plurality of tasks. Each task instruction is directed to a targeted task implementation tool for performing a particular task and includes task-related information for the targeted implementation tool to perform the particular task. Registering the plurality of task implementation tools to interface with the change management tool includes registering each the plurality of task implementation tools to accept the task instruction for the particular task directed to it from the change management tool, to know what to do with the task instruction and to know how to respond to the task instruction.