METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

• US 20120023429A1
• Filed: 09/20/2010
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Medhi, Goranka
• Granted Patent: US 9,208,050 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to manage system, computer, application, service, and/or network performance information are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a data interface, a display interface, a user control interface, and a temporal scale handler. The data interface is responsive to a user selection of a first data set identifier associated with a first system performance metric, to retrieve a first data set corresponding to the first data set identifier. The display interface is to display a first plot corresponding to the first data set in a time navigator view of a graphical user interface host. The user control interface is to detect a user-selected time-range portion of the first plot in the time navigator. The temporal scale handler is to generate replicated time-range portions based on the user-selected time-range portion. The display interface is to display the replicated time-range portions in the time navigator at periodic intervals relative to the user-selected time-range portion.

Claims

1. An apparatus to display system performance metrics, comprising:

a data interface responsive to a user selection of a first data set identifier associated with a first system performance metric, to retrieve a first data set corresponding to the first data set identifier;

a display interface to display a first plot corresponding, to the first data set in a time navigator view of a graphical user interface host;

a user control interface to detect a user-selected time-range portion of the first plot in the time navigator; and

a temporal scale handler to generate replicated time-range portions based on the user-selected time-range portion, the display interface to display the replicated time-range portions in the time navigator at periodic intervals relative to the user-selected time-range portion.

2. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the display interface is to display, in a magnification graph view, a selected portion of the first plot specified by the user-selected time-range portion.

3. An apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein the display interface is to display user-interface controls in the magnification graph view to enable displaying in the magnification graph view further portions of the first plots specified by the replicated time-range portions in the time navigator.

4. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the periodic intervals are calendar-based intervals.

5. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the user control interface is to receive a user-selected interval to specify the periodic intervals.

6. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the first system performance metric is a CPU percentage utilization.

7. A method to display system performance metrics, comprising:

in response to a user selection of a first data set identifier associated with a first system performance metric, retrieving a first data set corresponding to the first data set identifier;

in response to a user selection of a second data set identifier associated with a second system performance metric, retrieving a second data set corresponding to the second data set identifier;

displaying a first plot of the first data set and a second plot of the second data set in a first graph view within a graph area of a graphical user interface host; and

moving the second plot of the second data set to a second graph view in the graph area of the graphical user interface host based on a user selection of the second plot in the first graph view and a user-interface dragging event of the second plot to the second graph view from the first graph view.

8. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein the displaying of the first plot and the second plot in the first graph view is performed in response to user-interface dragging events of the first data set identifier and the second data set identifier to the graph area of the graphical user interface host.

9. A method as defined in claim 7, further comprising:

displaying a graph magnification view separate from the first graph view; and

displaying a portion of the first plot in magnification in the graph magnification view based on a user selection of the portion of the first plot in the first graph view.

10. A method as defined in claim 9, wherein the magnification is a time scale magnification.

11. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein the first and second system performance metrics are a same type of metric, the first plot indicative of a performance of a first application instance, and the second plot indicative of a performance of a second application instance.

12. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein the first and second data sets include previously collected data, and further comprising updating the first and second plots in the first graph window with real-time data.

13. A method as defined in claim 7, further comprising:

displaying the first and second plots in a time navigator;

detecting a user selection of portions of the first and second plots in the time navigator; and

displaying selections of further portions of the first and second plots in the time navigator in periodic intervals based on the user selection of the portions of the first and second plots.

14. A method as defined in claim 13, wherein displaying the first plot of the first data set and the second plot of the second data set in the first graph view comprises displaying the user selected portions of the first and second plots in the time navigator in association with a magnified time scale indicated by the user selected portions in the time navigator, and further comprising displaying user-interface controls in the first graph view to enable displaying in the first graph view the further portions of the first and second plots associated with the periodic intervals in the time navigator.

15. A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a machine to:

in response to a user selection of a first data set identifier associated with a first system performance metric, retrieve a first data set corresponding to the first data set identifier;

in response to a user selection of a second data set identifier associated with a second system performance metric, retrieve a second data set corresponding to the second data set identifier; and

display a first plot of the first data set and a second plot of the second data set in a first graph view within a graph area of a graphical user interface host; and

moving the second plot of the second data set to a second graph view in the graph area of the graphical user interface host based on a user selection of the second plot in the first graph view and a user-interface dragging event of the second plot to the second graph view from the first graph view.