Method and system for determining configuration rules based on configurations of complex systems

摘要

The current document discloses an automated method and system for inferring the logical rules underlying the configuration and versioning state of the components and subcomponents of a complex system, including data centers and other complex computational environments. The methods and systems employ a database of configuration information and construct an initial set of logical rules, or hypotheses, regarding system configuration. Then, using simulated annealing and a variant of genetic programming, the methods and systems disclosed in the current document carry out a search through the hypothesis state space for the system under several constrains in order to find one or more hypotheses that best explain the configuration and, when available, configuration history. The constraints include minimization of the complexity of the hypotheses and maximizing the accuracy by which the hypotheses predict observed configuration and configuration history.