Providing a status indicator for a media job category

• US 20050081000A1
• Filed: 10/10/2003
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Gibson, Robert, Gold, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US10/683,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20050081000A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3447 Performance evaluation by modeling

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing a status indicator for a media job category. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a service level objective for a media job category, determining a status for each of a plurality of media jobs associated with the media job category, and providing a status indicator for the media job category based on the service level objective and the status for each of the plurality of media jobs.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a service level objective for a media job category;

determining a status for each of a plurality of media jobs associated with the media job category; and

providing a status indicator for the media job category based on the service level objective and the status for each of the plurality of media jobs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a status comprises determining whether each of the plurality of media jobs completed within a due time for each respective media job.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a service level objective comprises receiving a first desired percentage of media jobs to be completed within a due time associated with the media job.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein providing a status indicator comprises:

calculating a calculated percentage of the plurality of media jobs that were completed within the due time associated with the media job;

if the calculated percentage is less than the first desired percentage, providing a critical status indicator.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising receiving a second desired percentage of media jobs to be completed within the due time associated with the media job, the second desired percentage greater than the first desired percentage.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein providing a status indicator comprises:

calculating a calculated percentage of the plurality of media jobs that completed within the due time associated with the media job;

if the calculated percentage is less than the first desired percentage, providing a critical status indicator;

if the calculated percentage is greater than the first desired percentage and less than the second desired percentage, providing a warning status indicator; and

if the calculated percentage is greater than the second desired percentage, providing an OK status indicator.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second service level objective comprising a desired percentage of media to have a known location;

calculating a calculated percentage of media of a total number of media having a known location; and

providing a second status indicator for media having a known location based on the calculated percentage and the second service level objective.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a status indicator comprises providing one of a critical status, a warning status, and an OK status.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media job category comprises one of a media movement category, a device load category, and a scratch media initialization category.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the media movement category is one of a vaulting category for media jobs that move media having protected data to a different location, a scratch category for media jobs that move to move media having data that exceeded a protected time period to a scratch bin, and a check out request category for media check out jobs.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying one or more overdue media jobs associated with the media job category.

12. A system comprising:

a user interface to receive a service level objective for a media job category;

logic, communicatively coupled to said user interface, to determine a status for each of a plurality of media jobs associated with the media job category and to determine a status indicator for the media job category based on the service level objective and the status for each of the plurality of media jobs; and

wherein said user interface is further configured to provide the status indicator for the media job category.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

media job information comprising a plurality of media jobs associated with the media job category, each of the plurality of media jobs having a due time; and

wherein said logic is to determine the status using said media job information.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said media job information comprises information on at least one of a plurality of media movement jobs, a plurality of device load jobs, and a plurality of scratch media initialization jobs.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein said logic is further configured to calculate a calculated percentage of the plurality of media jobs that were completed within a due time associated with the media job.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the service level objective comprises a desired percentage of media jobs to be completed within a due time associated with the media job and said logic is configured to determine a critical status indicator if the calculated percentage is less than the desired percentage.

17. At least one machine-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform the action of:

receiving a service level objective for a media job category;

determining a status for each of a plurality of media jobs associated with the media job category;

providing a status indicator for the media job category based on the service level objective and the status for each of the plurality of media jobs.

18. The medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions for providing a status indicator comprise which, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform the actions of:

calculating a calculated percentage of the plurality of media jobs that were completed within a due time for each respective media job;

if the calculated percentage is less than the service level objective, providing a critical status indicator, wherein the service level objective comprises a desired percentage of media jobs to be completed within the due time for each respective media job.

19. The medium of claim 17, further comprising instructions which, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform the actions of:

receiving a second service level objective comprising a desired percentage of media to have a known location; and

calculating a calculated percentage of media of a total number of media having a known location; and

providing a second status indicator for media having a known location based on the calculated percentage and the second service level objective.

20. The medium of claim 22, further comprising instructions which, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform the action of displaying one or more overdue media jobs associated with the media job category.