System and method for assessing and indicating the health of components

• US 20040024571A1
• Filed: 02/28/2003
• Published: 02/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: It Masters Technologies SA
• Inventors: Trinon, Jean-Marc, Pignault, Olivier
• Granted Patent: US 7,617,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/186
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method for visualization of the components of such systems and the rendering of information about the “health” or status. The invention comprises using a combination of color codes or other indicators and a combination of algorithms and/or rules-based systems to control the computation of status/severities to associate to components and setup the color codes and indicators. The invention remedies the disadvantages of using a single color code or indicator for providing feedback on the health/status or components in a complex Enterprise System.

Claims

8-1. The method of claim 1 wherein the computing of Step (a) further comprises receiving a plurality of events and/or alerts from the IT component.

12. A system for indicating the health status of an IT component and at least one IT subcomponent comprising:

(a) an IT component processor capable of computing a component health status of the IT component;

(b) an IT subcomponent processor capable of computing a subcomponent health status for each IT subcomponent;

(c) a renderer capable of displaying the health status of the IT component by showing a first indicator for the IT component and a second indicator for the IT subcomponents.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the first indicator and the second indicator are colors.

14. The system of claim 12 wherein the IT component processor further comprises a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status of the component.

15. The system of claim 12 wherein the IT subcomponent processor further comprises a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status of each subcomponent.

16. The system of claim 12 wherein the IT component processor and the IT subcomponent processor are the same processor.

17. A system of assessing a plurality of IT components wherein each IT component has a plurality of IT subcomponents, the system which comprises:

(a) the system for indicating the health status of an IT component and at least one IT subcomponent of claim 12;

and

(b) a graphical user interface capable of displaying the health status of each IT component and each IT subcomponent.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor comprises a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor comprises an algorithm to control the computation of the health status.

20. The system of claim 17 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor is the same processor.