Patent ID: 8069441
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A job operation environment construction method performed by a management computer for deploying various to-be-deployed programs on a deployment computer, wherein the various to-be-deployed programs are used as premise of operation of a job program on the deployment computer for constructing the job operation environment, the method comprising: (a) recording and keeping therein information regarding contents of at least one boot disk image; (b) extracting a boot disk image and additional programs from a disk image storage as the premise of operation of the job program, wherein the boot disk image includes part of the to-be-deployed programs, and the additional programs are programs lacking in the boot disk image; (c) obtaining a procedure to deploy the boot disk image on the deployment computer and an optimized construction procedure to construct a job operation environment including a procedure to install the programs lacking in the boot disk image and a procedure to restart an operating system; (d) obtaining an estimated construction time by adding a period of time required to install the boot disk image extracted in the step (b) to a period of time required for the installation procedure in the construction procedure of the optimized operation environment and for the restart of the operating system; (e) determining whether or not the boot disk image extracted in the step (b) is adapted to construct the job operation environment according to the estimated construction time; and (f) deploying the boot disk image and the programs lacking in the boot disk image on the deployment computer if the boot disk image is determined to be adapted; wherein the step (c) further includes a step of obtaining from the programs lacking in the boot disk image, a group of programs successively installable without restarting an operating system after the installation, wherein the obtaining is performed by referring to a database having recorded groups of programs successively installable without restarting an operating system after the installation, and optimizing the construction procedure by deleting a number of restarts of the operating system in the construction procedure to construct the job operation environment, wherein the deleted restarts allow the obtained group of programs to be successively installed without restarting an operating system.