System and method for providing scorecards to visualize services in an intelligent workload management system

摘要

The system and method described herein for providing scorecards to visualize services in an intelligent workload management system may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads. In particular, the management threads may converge information for describing services, applications, workloads, in an information technology infrastructure. For example, a discovery engine may reference an identity vault to capture enriched models of an infrastructure, and a management infrastructure may then generate one or more scorecards that can be used to manage the infrastructure. In particular, the scorecards may provide information for tuning or otherwise controlling risk, complexity, cost, availability, and agility versus rigidness in the infrastructure.

主权项

1. A system for providing scorecards to visualize services in an intelligent workload management system, comprising:
an identity vault that stores federated information defining entitlements for a plurality of unique identities across a plurality of authentication domains, the entitlements derived from single sign-on workload identities, generated from authentication tokens that define various credentials and permissions assigned to any suitable user, application, system, service, or resource; a discovery engine that discovers an operational state for an information technology infrastructure from the federated information stored in the identity vault and actual activity monitored for the plurality of unique identities in the information technology infrastructure, wherein the discovery engine is configured to:
discover information that describes one or more physical resources and one or more virtualized resources in the information technology infrastructure from the federated information stored in the identity vault;discover information that describes one or more services, one or more applications, and one or more workloads running in the information technology infrastructure from the federated information stored in the identity vault;discover dependencies that define relationships between the physical resources, the virtualized resources, the services, the applications, and the workloads running in the information technology infrastructure from the federated information stored in the identity vault, wherein discover further includes identifying the relationships as: network addresses, storage locations, capacity requirements, bandwidth requirements, and life-cycle control information; anddiscover information that describes the plurality of unique identities access to the information technology infrastructure, wherein the discovered access information includes the entitlements defined in the identity vault and the actual activity monitored for the plurality of unique identities in the information technology infrastructure; and a display device configured to display a plurality of scorecards that visualize the discovered physical resources, the discovered virtualized resources, the discovered services, the discovered applications, the discovered workloads, the discovered dependencies, and the discovered access information.