Protection status determinations for computing devices

• US 10,003,646 B1
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eFolder, Inc.
• Original Assignee: eFolder, Inc.
• Inventors: Edwards, William Scott, Aguilera, Teresa
• Primary Examiner(s): Thieu, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US14/977,581
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/079 Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Systems, methods, and media that provide backup protection statuses for computing devices are provided herein. Some methods may include determining a backup status for a first computing device, assigning a protection status for the first computing device based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the first computing device, and transmitting the protection status to a monitoring device utilized by an end user.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

interrogating a replication receiver system to determine a backup status for each of a plurality of computing devices;

assigning a protection status to each of the plurality of computing devices based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the plurality of computing devices, the compliance schema comprising a backup schedule which delineates how often a backup is executed for or from a computing device of the plurality of computing devices based upon at least one of a time-bounded interval between backups, a network-connectivity threshold, and an entitlement capacity;

sorting the plurality of computing devices into groups according to their protection statuses;

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses; and

automatically taking a predetermined action with respect to at least one of the plurality of computing devices in the one or more lists based upon the protection statuses.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the time-bounded threshold defines a maximum period of time in which a backup must be successfully executed before the compliance schema is considered violated.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising generating the compliance schema from user-defined thresholds.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the compliance schema as a template.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating a graphical user interface which comprises a visual indicator that represents the protection status of at least a portion of the plurality of computing devices.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the backup status comprises any of network connectivity information, backup attempt information, entitlement capacity information, and any combination thereof.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising interrogating the replication receiver system to determine the backup status for at least a portion of the plurality of computing devices.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein assigning a protection status is based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the plurality of computing devices, the protection status indicating whether backup services for the plurality of computing devices are being executed in accordance with the compliance schema.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting the protection status to a monitoring device utilized by an end user to locate and determine an explanation for why one or more of the plurality of computing devices have not been backed up properly.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined action comprises generating a compliance message and transmitting the compliance message to a monitoring device.

11. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising.

interrogating a replication receiver system to determine a backup status for each of a plurality of computing devices;

assigning a protection status to each of the plurality of computing devices based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the plurality of computing devices, the compliance schema comprising a backup schedule which delineates how often a backup is executed for or from a computing device of the plurality of computing devices based upon at least one of a time-bounded interval between backups, a network-connectivity threshold, and an entitlement capacity;

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses; and

automatically taking a predetermined action with respect to at least one of the plurality of computing devices in the one or more lists based upon the protection statuses.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising applying the compliance schema to the plurality of computing devices.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising applying a custom compliance schema to one or more of the plurality of computing devices.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising transmitting an alert message when the protection status indicates that any of the plurality of computing devices have not been backed up according to the compliance schema.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein the time-bounded threshold defines a maximum period of time in which a backup must be successfully executed before the compliance schema is considered violated.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising generating the compliance schema from user-defined thresholds.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising storing the compliance schema as a template.

18. The system according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined action comprises generating a compliance message and transmitting the compliance message to a monitoring device.

19. A method, comprising:

dynamically modifying, by a replication receiver system, a compliance schema using one or more dynamic thresholds corresponding to computing device workload and network bandwidth availability as detected by the replication receiver system or a filter driver, the compliance schema comprising a backup schedule which delineates how often a backup is executed for or from a computing device of a plurality of computing devices based upon at least one of a time-bounded interval between backups, a network-connectivity threshold, and an entitlement capacity;

assigning the compliance schema for the plurality of computing devices;

obtaining backup information for the plurality of computing devices;

comparing the backup information to the compliance schema;

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses;

generating a compliance message based upon the comparison; and

transmitting the compliance message to a monitoring device.