AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION PLANNING

摘要

An Automated Configuration Management System (CMS) assists human operators with administering infrastructure elements in a data center. Configuration state information is collected and stored as a hierarchical set of features and feature attributes. Automated planning tools devise one or more candidate plans given a desired state as input.

主权项

1. A method for automated configuration change planning in a data center comprising:
receiving information concerning a current configuration state including one or more state objects for one or more infrastructure elements, the state objects including attributes and values for the attributes; receiving a target configuration state for at least one infrastructure element in the data center including state objects for one or more infrastructure elements; and selecting a set of actions to be taken as stored in an action library database, the selected actions, when applied to the current state, comprising a plan that will result in the desired state from the action library to reach the desired configuration state from the initial configuration state.