Title
Mining Configuration Items From System Logs through Distant Supervision
Abstract
IT operators face the big challenge of collecting and recording tens of thousands of configuration items (CIs) from large-scale IT infrastructure and managing their changes in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Existing automatic CI discovery tools such as IBM Tivoli rely on intrusive monitoring agents in each server, thus their setup and maintenance costs are significant. To solve these problems, we propose a non-intrusive CI mining approach through distant supervision, which can automatically discover CIs from system logs for managing configuration changes efficiently. It first labels CIs in logs through distant supervision of CMDB. Then, it discovers more CIs based on log clustering and alignment algorithms. The approach has been implemented with a distributed configuration management assistant tool named FineCI. Experiments on real-world system logs from a large bank show that our approach performs about 70% precision and 75% recall. Besides, through distributed implementation, the efficiency of our approach can be greatly improved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ISPA-BDCloud-SocialCom-SustainCom52081.2021.00156
19TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING WITH APPLICATIONS (ISPA/BDCLOUD/SOCIALCOM/SUSTAINCOM 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
configuration item, system logs, CMDB, CI mining
Conference
2158-9178
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qixun Zhang100.34
Tong Jia2103.35
Wensheng Xia300.68
Ying Li435145.93
Zhonghai Wu53412.36
Jing Han600.34