Patent ID: 9396285
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for tracking system changes to support data maintenance within a directory service environment, the method comprising: adding one or more log fields to a directory service database for one or more applications which interface with a directory service environment based on one or more predetermined fields to be tracked; updating the one or more log fields to register one or more database schema fields and one or more associated data, associated with the one or more applications creating a history of changes wherein creating the history of changes comprises updating the one or more log fields with at least one of the one or more associated data and the one or more associated data further comprises at least one of a one or more log value strings; monitoring at least one of one or more applications identities and one or more data access to the directory service environment wherein the one or more data access comprises at least one of the one or more log value strings wherein the one or more log value strings further comprises delimited values of at least one of application identifier, company name, read count, write count and last access timestamp; logging the one or more log value strings for each of the one or more applications identities and the one or more data access in the one or more log fields creating a history of usage wherein creating the history of usage comprises updating the one or more log fields with at least one of the one or more data access; analyzing at least one of the directory service database, the one or more log value strings in the history of usage and the history of changes to determine at least one of one or more relationship dependencies associated with the one or more applications, one or more usage information associated with the one or more applications and one or more maintenance actions associated with the one or more applications wherein the one or more maintenance actions is at least one of deleting unused information, rollback, backup, archive, restore and deploy changes wherein the one or more maintenance actions further comprises at least one of, adding, deleting and changing at least one of the one or more database schema fields, the one or more associated data, and the one or more data access; and responsive to detecting a condition in the directory service environment, meeting a predetermined one or more maintenance criteria and performing at least one of the one or more maintenance actions and outputting a report by at least one of an ad hoc, schedule and triggering event based on predetermined threshold value.