Visualizing conditions of information technology environments

• US 10,050,851 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: entIT Software LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Medhi, Goranka
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US14/430,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20150304181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,975 Days
• Field of Search: 715736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3433 for load management allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/835 Timestamp
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data

Abstract

Visualizing conditions of information technology environment includes creating a visual with an initial unit set and an interactive section, each unit in the initial unit set depicting at least two types of information about at least one current condition in the information technology environment and changing the visual in response to commands from the interactive section to reveal data about the information technology environment.

Claims

1. A method for visualizing conditions of information technology environments, comprising:

creating a visual with an initial unit set and an interactive section, each unit in said initial unit set depicting at least two types of information about at least one current condition of an entity in said information technology environment; and

changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment,

wherein said initial unit set is a tree map and at least the two types of information comprises a capacity of the entity, and a usage of the entity, wherein the capacity of the entity is represented by an area and the usage of the entity is represented by a color,

wherein the area is based on the capacity of the entity and color is based on the usage of the entity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes emphasizing portions of said information already in said visual.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes displaying a new unit set depicting at least some new information about said information technology environment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes creating a new unit set that depicts detailed information about a specific unit of said initial unit set.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes creating a new unit set that groups said information differently than in said initial unit set.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes reducing a number of said units in said initial unit set within said visual.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein changing said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment includes forming a new unit set that depicts previous information about said information technology environment.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating said information as said at least one current condition changes.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said initial unit set is a tree map.

10. A system for visualizing conditions of information technology environments, comprising:

a processor programmed to;

create a visual with an initial unit set and an interactive section, each unit in said initial unit set depicting at least two types of information about at least one current condition of an entity in said information technology environment;

change said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment; and

update said information as said conditions change in said information technology environment,

wherein said initial unit set is a tree map and at least the two types of information comprises a capacity of the entity, and a usage of the entity, wherein the capacity of the entity is represented by an area and the usage of the entity is represented by a color, wherein the area is based on the capacity of the entity and color is based on the usage of the entity.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said processor being programmed to change said visual includes emphasizing portions of said information already in said visual.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein said processor being programmed to change said visual includes creating a new unit set that groups said information differently than in said initial unit set.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein said processor being programmed to change said visual includes reducing a number of said units in said initial unit set within said visual.

14. A computer program product, comprising:

a tangible computer readable storage medium, which does not include a transitory propagating signal, said tangible computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code to create a tree map with an initial unit set and an interactive section, each unit in said initial unit set depicting at least two types of information about at least one current condition of an entity in an information technology environment;

computer readable program code to change said visual in response to commands from said interactive section to reveal data about said information technology environment;

and computer readable program code to update said information as said at least one condition changes in said information technology environment,

wherein said initial unit set is a tree map and at least the two types of information comprises a capacity of the entity, and a usage of the entity, wherein the capacity of the entity is represented by an area and the usage of the entity is represented by a color, wherein the area is based on the capacity of the entity and color is based on the usage of the entity.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising computer readable program code to reduce information in said tree map in response to said commands.