METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSE ANALYSIS CONFIGURATION CHANGE

• US 20110314138A1
• Filed: 07/07/2010
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Emiko, Kudo, Yutaka, Sugauchi, Kiminori, Masuishi, Tetsuya, Ono, Yoshitsugu, Fujita, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US12/988,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20110314138A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/222
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/076 by exceeding a count or rate limit, e.g. word- or bit count limit
• 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 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence

Abstract

In a computer system that comprises multiple target computers and an analysis computer, one or more first target computers, in which a predetermined application has been installed and invoked, send a log comprising information of multiple configuration changes that have been made prior to invoking the predetermined application to the analysis computer, and the analysis computer receives the log and computes, for each type of configuration change and based on the log, an invocation failure rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application fails subsequent to the configuration change. Then, a second target computer receives, from the analysis computer, first information comprising an invocation failure rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application, and based on the invocation failure rate, displays the type of configuration change that is the cause of the failure of the predetermined application invocation.

Claims

1. An application implementation method in a computer system, which comprises multiple target computers and an analysis computer,

wherein one or more first target computers, which are included in the multiple target computers and in which a predetermined application has been installed and invoked, send a log comprising information of multiple configuration changes that have been made prior to invoking the predetermined application to the analysis computer;

the analysis computer receives the log and computes, for each type of configuration change and based on the log, an invocation failure rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application fails subsequent to the configuration change;

a second target computer which is included in the multiple target computers and is a target computer other than the one or more first target computers;

(1) receives, from the analysis computer, first information comprising an invocation failure rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application; and

(2) based on the invocation failure rate, displays the type of configuration change that is the cause of the failure of the predetermined application invocation.

2. An application implementation method according to claim 1,

wherein the invocation failure rate included in the first information is an invocation failure rate for each type of part of all the types of configuration changes detected by the analysis computer based on the log, and

wherein the part of types is selected by the analysis computer based on the invocation failure rate.

3. An application implementation method according to claim 2,

wherein a tabulation time for showing when the invocation failure rate is computed, is included in the first information, and

wherein the second target computer displays the tabulation time.

4. An application implementation method according to claim 3,

wherein the analysis computer computes, for each type of configuration change and based on the log, an invocation success rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application succeeds subsequent to the configuration change, and

wherein the second target computer:

(3) receives, from the analysis computer, second information comprising an invocation success rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application; and

(4) based on the invocation success rate, displays the type of configuration change that is the cause of the successful invocation of the predetermined application.

5. An application implementation method according to claim 4,

wherein the second target computer is installed with multiple applications besides the predetermined application, and

wherein the second target computer selects, from among the predetermined application and the multiple applications, an application for which the invocation could fail with respect to a predetermined type included in all the types of configuration changes, and displays an identifier of the selected application.

6. An application implementation method according to claim 5,

wherein the processing of the (1) is executed in relation to the installation of the predetermined application.

7. An application implementation method according to claim 6,

wherein the type is a configuration item and/or a change type.

8. A second target computer, which is coupled to an analysis computer for managing a first target computer in which a predetermined application has been invoked, comprising:

a CPU for receiving, from the analysis computer, first information which comprises an invocation failure rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application; and

a display for displaying, based on the invocation failure rate, a configuration change type that is the cause of the failure of the predetermined application invocation,

wherein the invocation failure rate is a value computed, for each type of multiple configuration changes carried out by the first target computer prior to the predetermined application invocation, by the analysis computer as a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application fails subsequent to the configuration change.

9. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein the invocation failure rate included in the first information is an invocation failure rate for each type of part of all the types of configuration changes detected by the analysis computer, and

wherein the part of types is selected by the analysis computer based on the invocation failure rate.

10. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein a tabulation time for showing when the invocation failure rate is computed is included in the first information, and

wherein the second target computer displays the tabulation time.

11. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein the analysis computer computes, for each type of configuration change, an invocation success rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application succeeds subsequent to the configuration change,

wherein the CPU receives, from the analysis computer, second information comprising an invocation success rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application, and

wherein, based on the invocation success rate, the display displays the type of the configuration change that is the cause of the successful invocation of the predetermined application.

12. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein the second target computer is installed with multiple applications besides the predetermined application,

wherein the CPU selects, from the predetermined application and the multiple applications, an application for which the invocation could fail with respect to a predetermined type included in all the types of configuration changes, and

wherein the display displays an identifier of the selected application.

13. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein the displaying on the display is executed in relation to the installation of the predetermined application.

14. A second target computer according to claim 8,

wherein the type is a configuration item and/or a change type.