Patent ID: 7966278

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for determining the health impact of an application based on information obtained from like-profiled computing systems, the method comprising: obtaining a plurality of computing-system profiles; obtaining system-health-evaluation results for each of the plurality of computing-system profiles; identifying, by analyzing the plurality of computing-system profiles using a clustering profile, a first set of like-profiled computing systems; identifying, by analyzing the plurality of computing-system profiles, a second set of like-profiled computing systems, the second set of like-profiled computing systems being substantially identical to the first set of like-profiled computing systems but for a first application installed on the second set of like-profiled computing systems; determining the health impact of the first application by comparing a first set of system-health-evaluation results associated with the first set of like-profiled computing systems with a second set of system-health-evaluation results associated with the second set of like-profiled computing systems.