Patent ID: 7188346

Claim:
A method of correlating data between independent operating environments of a computing environment, the method comprising: identifying a failure event; responsive to the identifying of the event, associating by a first operating environment a first key to a set of data to be obtained responsive to the event; subsequent to the associating by the first operating environment the first key to the set of data to be obtained responsive to the event, obtaining by a second operating environment the set of data with the associated first key, and associating a second key therewith by the second operating environment, wherein associated with the set of data is the first key associated by the first operating environment and the second key associated by the second operating environment; and using the set of data with the associated first key and second key to correlate thereto at least one other set of data obtained by the first operating environment or the second operating environment responsive to the failure event, the at least one other set of data having only the first key or the second key associated therewith.