METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE CATALOG AND PROVIDING CONFIGURATION FOR INSTALLATION

Patent №

US 7,743,373

Granted

2010-06-22

Filed 2005

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Lab

IBM Research

AI components

kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11123304

A method and apparatus enhancing software catalog manageability, providing abstract software configuration, and desired state management. A first mechanism enhances software catalog manageability. The first mechanism includes a software model that separates metadata of software from actual binaries of the software. A second mechanism abstracts software configuration for automation. The second mechanism includes a hierarchical software resource template structure that specifies parameters, dependencies between parameters, features, options, and parameters that cannot be predefined. A third mechanism provides for desired state management and patch compliance assessments. The third mechanism checks against a server template or software resource in a data center model against what is installed on actual machines to determine compliance.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Assignors

AVRAM, MIRCEA, KISSA, PETER, LI, GEYU, MATEESCU, RADU BOGDAN, MATHIEU, ARNAUD AIRY XAVIER LUCIEN, OPREA, ANDREI, PETEANU, C. RAZVAN, SANCHEZ, JOHN CONRAD, TECSA, CRISTINA L., TECSA, TEODOR LAURENTIU, TROSSMAN, ANDREW NEIL

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