Distillation and reconstruction of provisioning components
Disclosed is a method for archiving provisioning errors that may occur during provisioning of a computing environment having configurable components. The method may comprise distilling a provisioning request, wherein the distilling the provisioning request includes recording, in a provisioning archive, a provisioning request component, and filtering the provisioning request component. The provisioning request component may comprise a component requested to be added to, removed from, and/or updated in the computing environment. The method may further comprise distilling a provisioning target, wherein the distilling the provisioning target includes recording, in the provisioning archive, a target environment, and filtering an existing component of the target environment. Additionally, the method may comprise applying the provisioning request to the provisioning target, including provisioning the target environment, resulting in an updated provisioning target. Furthermore, the method may comprise determining if a provisioning error occurred, and adding the provisioning error, if any, to the provisioning archive.
1. A method for archiving provisioning errors that may occur during provisioning of a computing environment having configurable components, the method comprising:
distilling a provisioning request, wherein the distilling the provisioning request includes recording, in a provisioning archive, a provisioning request component, and filtering the provisioning request component, the provisioning request component comprising a component requested to be added to, removed from, and/or updated in the computing environment;
distilling a provisioning target, wherein the distilling the provisioning target includes recording, in the provisioning archive, a target environment, and filtering an existing component of the target environment;
applying the provisioning request to the provisioning target, including provisioning the target environment, resulting in an updated provisioning target;
determining if a provisioning error occurred; and
adding the provisioning error, if any, to the provisioning archive.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating the provisioning archive of the computing environment prior to the distilling the provisioning request.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein filtering the provisioning request component comprises removing proprietary information from the provisioning request component recorded in the provisioning archive.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein filtering the target environment comprises further removing proprietary information from the target environment recorded in the provisioning archive.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning error is correlated to the provisioning request and the provisioning request component.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising closing the provisioning archive.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising one of:
re-creating the provisioning archive on the first computing environment for analysis of the provision archive and the provisioning error; and
transmitting the provisioning archive to a second computing environment for analysis of the provisioning archive and the provisioning error without transmitting any proprietary information.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining further comprises determining if a plurality of provisioning errors occurred, and wherein adding comprises adding the plurality of provisioning errors, if any, to the provisioning archive.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the distilling the provisioning request includes recording a plurality of provisioning request components.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the distilling the provisioning request and the distilling the provisioning target are applied to an OSGi runtime environment.
11. A method for re-creating at a first computing environment a provisioning error that occurred on a second computing environment having configurable components for analysis at the first computing machine, the method comprising:
receiving a provisioning archive from the second computing machine;
opening the provisioning archive;
re-creating a provisioning request, wherein the re-creating the provisioning request includes inflating a distilled provisioning request component resulting in an inflated provisioning request component;
re-creating a provisioning target, wherein the re-creating the provisioning target includes inflating a distilled target environment; and
applying the provisioning request to the provisioning target, including provisioning the target environment, resulting in the re-created provisioning error.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the inflated provisioning request component restores substantially the same public metadata on the second computing environment as was present on the first computing environment at the time of the provisioning error.
13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the inflated provisioning request component generates shell code that may act as proprietary information that was previously removed from the provisioning archive received from the second computing environment.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the inflated provisioning request component re-creates the provisioning error from the second computing environment onto the first computing environment.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the inflated provisioning request component re-creates the provisioning error onto the first computing environment without including proprietary information.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the inflated provisioning request component re-creates more than one provisioning error.
17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising analyzing the re-created provisioning error.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the analyzing is conducted for de-bugging purposes.
19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the re-creating the provisioning error is applied to an OSGi runtime environment.
20. The method of claim 11 , further comprising closing the provisioning archive on the second computing environment.