Patent ID: 7240325
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method for generating a topology associated with a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of: a first automated step of identifying components in the computing environment and their dependencies, wherein identification comprises computing and traversing at least a portion of a model representative of an existence of one or more relationships associated with at least a portion of the components of the computing environment and which is capable of accounting for a full lifecycle associated with at least one component of the computing environment, wherein a component is capable of being a software component and dependencies of the component comprise at least one of one or more other components depending on the component and one or more other components the component depends on, and further wherein the full lifecycle comprises a design stage, a deployment stage, and a runtime stage; and a second automated step of presenting the one or more identified components in a topological representation based on the one or more relationships associated with the one or more identified components wherein the model is in a form comprising a functional categorization, a structural categorization and an operational categorization such that the topological representation comprises a functional plane, a structural plane and an operational plane respectively corresponding to at least a portion of the functional categorization, the structural categorization and the operational categorization of the model.