Patent Document ID: 9443196
Application ID: 14041317
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a network operation console in a datacenter, notification of a datacenter problem, the datacenter having a complex federated topology of interconnected devices hosting applications and services; retrieving topology information, relating to datacenter entities associated with the datacenter management problem, from a plurality of topology repositories in the datacenter storing objects related to entities in a plurality of datacenter domains including application, compute, network, and storage domains, and their interconnect information; building a problem domain defined by a set of datacenter topology entities likely to be related or contributory to a cause of the datacenter management problem; categorizing events from the domains according to a precedence probability of a plurality of planes defined by categories including fault, configuration, audit, performance, security, and others having respective relative degrees of probability of occurring in the datacenter; building a causal map corresponding to the problem domain according to the events categorized under respective planes; analyzing the causal map to determine a most precedent event on the causal map of the events categorized under the respective planes according to the precedence probability; inferring a causal event of the datacenter management problem according to the most precedent event as determined by the analysis of the causal map; and resolving the datacenter problem according to the inferred causal event of the datacenter management problem as determined by the most precedent event to affect operation of the datacenter.