A technique for determining a root cause of a condition (e.g., service outage) of at least one subject component in a computing environment comprises the following steps/operations. First, one or more components in the computing environment upon which the at least one subject component depends (e.g.,...http://www.google.de/patents/US7096459?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7096459 - Methods and apparatus for root cause identification and problem determination in distributed systems
