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Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Vasanth Bala, Rye, NY (US);

Canturk Isci, Secaucus, NJ (US);

James A. Lindeman, Croton-On-Hudson, NY (US);

Todd W. Mummert, Danbury, CT (US);

Darrell C. Reimer, Tarrytown, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3003 (2013.01); G06F 11/3051 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01); G06F 2201/865 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for passively monitoring a computer system. In an embodiment, a read-only target is created based on the configuration of the virtual server disk used by the virtual server to access the storage associated therewith. This read-only target can be used to expose the virtual server disk for access by a monitoring crawler. Using the read-only target, a monitoring crawler can acquire a set of features regarding the virtual server from the virtual server disk. One or more of this set of features can be analyzed to perform passive monitoring of the virtual server.


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