Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests

Authors:
John Dunagan;Brad Daniels;Aaron Johnson;Chad Verbowski
Affiliations:
Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research
Venue:
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We describe a new approach to self-managing software patching. We identify visibility into patch impact as the key missing component in automating the current patching process, and we present a suite of components that provides this visibility by constructing black-box persistent-state manifests through self-monitoring of dependencies. Additionally, we use the component suite to measure the actual impact of recent patches on several important commercial applications.