Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.

Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for evaluating and controlling configuration of a build manifest. An application build manifest is discovered and is subjected to parsing process in which one or more components that comprise the application are identified. The build manifest is monitored for changes to the identified components, and a change notification is generated in response to a change in an identified component. Each generated change notification is assigned a classification. The change notifications are applied selectively to update the manifest, wherein the selective update is based on the classification of the change notification.

A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.

A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data and source validation for equipment output data and/or for equipment failure predict. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a first request for first data that is output by first equipment, a computing system might retrieve and analyze the first data to determine whether the first data can be trusted. If so, the computing system might send the first data to the requesting device. If not, the computing system might send a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing a copy of the first data. In response to the blockchain system identifying such a blockchain, the computing system might receive the identified blockchain; might abstract the block containing the copy of the first data from the identified blockchain; might abstract the first data from the block; and might send the first data to the requesting device.

A home equipment management apparatus includes: an inquiry unit that inquires, in response to a registration request from a user terminal via a wide area network, a house control device that controls a standard-compatible equipment and a vendor-specific equipment connected to a home network about information of the vendor-specific equipment via the wide area network; a registration unit that registers the information of the vendor-specific equipment including at least address information transmitted from the house control device, together with identification information indicating that the equipment is a vendor-specific equipment; a confirmation unit that transmits the information of the vendor-specific equipment registered in the equipment management table to the user terminal and acquires a result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal; and an update unit that updates a registered content of the vendor-specific equipment according to the result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal.

An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. A system comprising a server can determine a change associated with a CI, send, to a configuration management database (CMDB), a message that updates the CMDB based on the determined change associated with the CI, determine, for the CI, a monitor configuration that describes one or more variables and corresponding one or more parameters with which the CI is to be monitored, and send the CI with the monitor configuration to a plurality of monitoring software tools operating on a plurality of servers, where each monitoring software tool is configured to monitor the CI based on the monitor configuration.

An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. A system comprising a server can determine a change associated with a CI, send, to a configuration management database (CMDB), a message that updates the CMDB based on the determined change associated with the CI, determine, for the CI, a monitor configuration that describes one or more variables and corresponding one or more parameters with which the CI is to be monitored, and send the CI with the monitor configuration to a plurality of monitoring software tools operating on a plurality of servers, where each monitoring software tool is configured to monitor the CI based on the monitor configuration.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for utilizing blockchain to implement named data networking. In various embodiments, a computing system might determine whether a cache that is communicatively coupled to the computing system contains data that is responsive to a first request received from a user. If so, the computing system might retrieve and send (to the client device) data that is responsive to the received first request. If not, the computing system might send, to a blockchain system, a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing data responsive to the received first request. In response to identifying such a blockchain, the computing system might receive a copy of the identified blockchain; might abstract, from the identified blockchain, the block containing the data responsive to the received first request; might abstract the data from the identified block; and might send the data to the client device.

This application provides a port configuration method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first communications device, an identifier of a second port group of a second communications device, where the identifier of the second port group is used to indicate configuration information of a first port of the first communications device, and establishing, by the first communications device, a connection to a second port in the second port group by using the first port, where the first port is any port of the first communications device, the second port is any port in the second port group, and the configuration information includes an internet protocol IP address; determining, by the first communications device, the configuration information of the first port based on the identifier of the second port group; and configuring, by the first communications device, the configuration information for the first port.