Patent ID: 7992040
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: obtaining an indication of a problem in at least one component of a computing system; constructing a relevant change set without a time constraint by tracing a repository of changes under one or more workloads, considering all such changes as part of the relevant change set, until a prior workload is found that has more intensity than a current workload and was not facing the indicated problem, and ignoring any of the considered changes having a normalized frequency value below a predetermined threshold; analyzing the relevant change set associated with a directed dependency graph, said relevant change set comprising a list of past changes to said computing system which are potentially relevant to said problem, said directed dependency graph comprising dependency information regarding given components of said computing system invoked by transactions in said computing system, said analyzing comprising identifying at least one of said past changes to said computing system that is a root cause of said problem; and configuring said computing system to proactively overcome said root cause.