Patent ID: 8515799

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for automatically determining at least one change plan from at least one component interaction, the method comprising the steps of: observing at least one interaction between two or more components of at least one distributed computing system in which invocation of at least a first component leads to invocation of at least a second component, wherein the at least one interaction is observed at least in part by tracking respective invocations of the two or more components; determining a partial order of two or more changes from the at least one observed to component interaction in the at least one distributed computing system; automatically transforming the partial order of two or more changes into at least one ordered task, wherein the at least one ordered task is linked by at least one temporal ordering constraint; and using the at least one ordered task to generate at least one change plan useable for managing the at least one distributed computing system, wherein the at least one change plan is based on at least one requested change; wherein the steps are performed by a computer.