Patent ID: 11966601
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method of handling configuration drift in a data storage system having a plurality of storage nodes, comprising:
defining a golden configuration dataset for the data storage system;
obtaining a current configuration dataset of each storage node of the plurality of storage nodes, each of the golden and configuration datasets comprising a plurality of sentences defining a node configuration parameter;
determining a distance between each sentence of the golden configuration dataset with each other sentence of the current configuration datasets for each of the plurality of storage nodes by creating a probability distribution of all sentence embeddings in the n-dimensional space using an unsupervised clustering technique, generating probability distributions for each of the golden configuration dataset and current configuration datasets, and creating, for each probability distribution, a distance matrix representing a pair-wise distance between each point and every other point in the probability distribution;
ranking each node based on a distance of its sentences with the golden configuration dataset;
performing an action on a corresponding node based on its respective ranking;
embedding every sentence as a vector in n-dimensional space wherein every sentence has a point value representing its position relative to all other sentences, and further wherein a distance corresponds to a measure of closeness between two sentences.