Method and system for automatically detecting and resolving infrastructure faults in cloud infrastructure
US9146840B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 17, 2013 |
| Grant date | Sep 29, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 13, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/805
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for any party in a cloud ecosystem (cloud providers of such resources, the intermediate management software for such resources, and the end user of such resources) to detect and resolve faulty resources synchronously or asynchronously, before said faults adversely affect the users' workloads. The system requests a service or set of one or more resources within a cloud, automatically checking the infrastructure for various faults that would cause it to be non-functional, including pre-defined and user-defined checks, and resolving them before including the infrastructure in the working service cluster of resources. The system presents an API to the user that returns only functional, production-quality resources that are not in a faulty state. An API that tests and resolves bad infrastructure can be registered during the request or a preceding/subsequent API call, removing the need for the end-user to deal with various types of infrastructure faults.
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