Ontology driven contextual mediation
View Patent ↗A method for ontologically driving context mediation in a computing system can include collecting events arising from a solution in a computing environment, loading operational meta-data for the solution, contextually mediating, for example context interchange (COIN) mediating, the collected events with the operational meta-data to produce context sensitive events, and correlating the context sensitive events with corresponding symptoms in a display to an end user in the computing environment.
1. A method for ontologically driving context mediation in a computing system, the method comprising:
crawling or indexing of logical components of solution executing in a hosted computing architecture of a computing environment to acquire splunked events;
collecting both the splunked events and also events generated natively through operation of logical components of the hosted computing architecture or via an adapter to the logical components of the hosted computing architecture;
loading a solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution;
contextually mediating the collected events with the solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution to produce context sensitive events by providing both the splunked events and the natively generated events to a context interchange (COIN) mediator, the COIN mediator producing context sensitive events by mediating the collected events with the loaded solution topology, workload patterns, and software configuration and also with a catalog of pre-defined symptoms; and,
correlating the context sensitive events with corresponding symptoms in a display to an end user in the computing environment.
2. An event correlation data processing system comprising:
at least one processor coupled to a memory;
an event collector crawling or indexing of logical components of solution executing in a hosted computing architecture of a computing environment to acquire splunked events and collecting both the splunked events and also events generated natively through operation of logical components of the hosted computing architecture or via an adapter to the logical components of the hosted computing architecture;
a meta-data collector loading a solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution;
a context mediator coupled to both collectors, the context mediator contextually mediating the solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution to produce context sensitive events by providing both the splunked events and the natively generated events to a context interchange (COIN) mediator, the COIN mediator producing context sensitive events by mediating the collected events with the loaded solution topology, workload patterns, and software configuration and also with a catalog of pre-defined symptoms; and,
a correlation engine coupled to the context mediator, the correlation engine associating context sensitive events produced by the context mediator with pre-defined symptoms in a catalog.
3. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable storage medium having stored therein computer usable program code for ontologically driving context mediation in a computing system, the computer program product comprising:
computer usable program code for crawling or indexing of logical components of solution executing in a hosted computing architecture of a computing environment to acquire splunked events;
computer usable program code for collecting both the splunked events and also events generated natively through operation of logical components of the hosted computing architecture or via an adapter to the logical components of the hosted computing architecture;
computer usable program code for loading a solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution;
computer usable program code for contextually mediating the collected events with the solution topology for the solution, workload patterns for the solution, and software configuration for applications provided as part of the solution to produce context sensitive events by providing both the splunked events and the natively generated events to a context interchange (COIN) mediator, the COIN mediator producing context sensitive events by mediating the collected events with the loaded solution topology, workload patterns, and software configuration and also with a catalog of pre-defined symptoms; and,
computer usable program code for correlating the context sensitive events with corresponding symptoms in a display to an end user in the computing environment.