Monitoring information assets and information asset topologies

摘要

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer system monitors information assets providing data for constructing a logical entity. The information assets are dependent upon each other for data and form a topology. The computer system receives an event message associated with an information asset. The event message includes information relating to one or more conditions of that information asset. The computer system processes the received event message to determine the presence of a change within the associated information asset that affects the topology. The change is determined based on the information relating to the one or more conditions within the received event message. The computer system further transmits a notification of the change to one or more entities in response to determining the presence of the change. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for monitoring information assets.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of monitoring a plurality of information assets providing data for constructing a logical entity, wherein said information assets form a topology, said computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving an event message associated with an information asset selected from the plurality of information assets, said event message including information relating to one or more conditions of said associated information asset, wherein said event message includes values each associated with a corresponding one of said conditions, and wherein a status for said associated information asset is based on one or more of said conditions; processing said received event message to determine the presence of a change within said associated information asset that affects said topology based on said information relating to said one or more conditions, wherein said processing said received event message comprises:
determining a status of each said condition contributing to said status for said associated information asset based on said values associated with said conditions;combining said status of each said condition contributing to said status for said associated information asset to determine said status of said associated information asset; andcomparing said determined status of said associated information asset to a prior status to determine said change; and transmitting a notification of said change to one or more entities in response to determining the presence of said change.