Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Data center cartography bootstrapping from process table data
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Application No.: US16446531Application Date: 2019-06-19
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Publication No.: US11018953B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Chad E. DeLuca , Alfredo Alba , Chris Kau , Daniel Gruhl , Linda H. Kato
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Sherman IP LLP
- Agent Kenneth L. Sherman; Steven Laut
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L12/24 ; G06F40/40

Abstract:
One embodiment provides a method including identifying all computing nodes and connections associated with the computing nodes in a data center. For each computing node, running processes are identified using natural language processing (NLP) by: extracting known process entities according to predetermined rules; extracting unknown process entities by: grouping process logs that share process entities and identifying hints in parameters and directory paths; receiving annotations to the hints to identify an application a process is running; and creating a new rule based on the annotations and propagating the new rule to other process logs. A visual representation of the computing nodes and the processes running on the computing nodes is generated.
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