Patent Document ID: 9323641
Application ID: 13942792
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for managing changes to a network comprising a plurality of at least one of personal computers, workstations, storage servers, database servers, applications, databases, network-attached devices, routers, firewalls, network interfaces and other devices, as well as logical components like IP addresses, DNS addresses, and firewall rules, all interconnected by wired, wireless or hierarchical interconnection networks, comprising: for a proposed change to the network, automatically, in software, assessing impacts and risk of failures, by a) automatically determining a Base Variable value by modeling predicted success rates based at least in part on historical data for a person identified to make the proposed change, and computing the sum of other variable values which model predicted success rates based at least in part on historical data for other aspects of the proposed change; and b) outputting, in dependence on said step a), an assessment both of impacts to at least one of the networks, the devices, and the logical components, and also of risk of failures; whereby a system administrator can reassign the proposed change to another person, defer the proposed change, accept the proposed change, or revise the proposed change, in accordance with said outputting substep b).