Patent ID: 7620715
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment comprising: facilitating detecting of a change to an element of a data processing device of the data processing environment; facilitating correlating the change to one or more events associated with the element by retrieving the one or more events from a first repository of events of the data processing environment; reporting the detected change for the element, supplemented with one or more of the correlated events of the element; periodically combing one or more event logs of the data processing device of the data processing environment for events logged for elements of the data processing devices; depositing the combed events into a second repository; determining one or more users associated with the one or more correlated events, and the reporting further comprises supplementing the one or more correlated events of the element with the determined one or more user associated with the one or more correlated events; and designating a first subset of the plurality of events correlated with the change detected as having a higher probability of having caused the change detected than a second subset of the plurality of events.