Patent ID: 8707422

Claim:
A method comprising: selectively monitoring configuration changes sent, over a network from an analytics module to one or more configurable elements (CEs) within a configurable computation systems (CCS), using one or more configuration change monitors corresponding to the one or more CEs, wherein the selective monitoring generates configuration change status information, wherein configuration change status information relates to an occurrence of a configuration change, failure of an attempted configuration change, or success of a configuration change and the configuration change status information is provided from the one or more configuration change monitors to the analytics module over the network; managing, using a configuration management system, a configuration change process for the one or more CEs, wherein the managing generates one or more configuration change requests; identifying, using the analytics module, one or more change configuration rules associated with the one or more CEs corresponding to the configuration change status information; and processing, using the analytics module, the configuration change status information, the one or more configuration change requests, and the one or more configuration change rules to determine (1) whether one or more configuration changes are associated with the one or more configuration change requests and (2) whether the one or more configuration changes complied with the one or more configuration change rules.