Computer system and method for program execution monitoring in computer system

• US 20030074605A1
• Filed: 07/19/2002
• Published: 04/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Morimoto, Yoshiaki, Nakano, Masaki, Satoyama, Motoaki, Doi, Kouji, Santo, Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US10/199,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20030074605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/004 Error avoidance G06F11/07 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2038 with a single idle spare processing component
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software

Abstract

In the invention, an exception that occurs in execution of a program is detected, and the normal operation exception occurrence pattern and/or the exception occurrence distribution are prepared from detected exceptions. Furthermore, by comparing the exception occurrence pattern and/or the exception occurrence distribution with the exception that is detected in operation of a computer, the abnormal operation is detected in early stage.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a detection means for detecting an exception that occurs concomitantly with execution of a program; and

an exception distribution table preparation means for preparing an exception distribution table that shows the normal operation exception distribution based on the detected exception.

2. The computer system according to claim 1,

wherein said computer system has a memory means for storing detected exceptions in time series, and

wherein said exception distribution table preparation means prepares a table that stores the exception that occurs during normal operation and the number of occurrence of the exception out of the exceptions stored in said memory means.

3. The computer system according to claim 1, further comprising an abnormality judgment section for judging an exception distribution to be abnormal when an exception distribution that is different from said exception distribution is detected, and an information output section for carrying out the abnormality coping processing that has been set previously according to the output of said abnormality judgment section.

4. The computer system according to claim 1, further comprising an abnormality judgment section in which the exception to be regarded as abnormality determined based on said exception distribution table has been set to judge the exception to be abnormal when an exception that is regarded as abnormality is detected;

and

an information output section for carrying out abnormality coping processing that has been set previously according to the output of said abnormality judgment section.

5. The computer system according to claim 4, wherein said output section generates a dump in execution and/or generates a warning according to the output of said abnormality judgment section.

6. The computer system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an abnormality judgment section in which the exception that does not occur in normal operation determined according to said exception distribution table has been set to judge the exception to be abnormal when the exception that does not occur in normal operation is detected; and

an information output section for generating a dump in execution and/or generating a warning according to the output of said abnormality judgment section.

7. A computer system comprising:

a detection means for detecting an exception that occurs concomitantly with execution of a program;

a memory means for storing a detected exception in time series; and

an exception occurrence pattern preparation means for preparing the normal operation exception occurrence pattern and the abnormal operation exception occurrence pattern from columns of exceptions stored in said memory means in time series.

8. A program execution monitoring method for a computer system comprising the steps of:

detecting an exception that occurs concomitantly with execution of a program;

preparing an exception distribution table that shows the normal operation exception distribution from detected exceptions, and when an exception occurs in execution of the same program as said program;

comparing the distribution of the exception with said exception distribution table to judge whether the exception is an abnormal operation or not.

9. A program execution monitoring method for computer system comprising the steps of:

detecting an exception that occurs concomitantly with execution of a program;

storing the detected exception in time series;

preparing the normal operation exception occurrence pattern and the abnormal operation exception occurrence pattern from columns of exceptions stored in time series; and

when an exception occurs in execution of the same program as said program, comparing the occurrence pattern of the exception with said normal operation exception occurrence pattern and/or said abnormal operation exception occurrence pattern to judge whether the exception is an abnormal operation or not.