System for time-bucketing of baselined data collector data

• US 6,658,367 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2001
• Issued: 12/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Conrad, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): Barlow, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lau, Tung S
• Application Number:
  US09/818,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20020143494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 979 Days
• Field of Search: 702/176, 702/188, 364/200, 371/146, 235/472, 382/240, 714/748, 395/440, 370/210, 370/395, 359/135, 600/510
• US Class Current: 702/176
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment of a system for a time-bucketing data collection module is disclosed. The time-bucketing data collection module may be configured to retrieve information from remote network devices and to collate (or sort) the retrieved information into time interval bins (or time-buckets) to assist in the maintenance of a network. The sorted information is then utilized by a threshold calculation module of the time bucketing data collection module to calculate a baseline value, defining a normal operating range for a performance parameter, for the time interval. Subsequently, the calculated baseline value is used to calculate a revised threshold value by the threshold calculation module. The revised threshold value is then forwarded to a threshold comparator configured to compare incoming information (or data point values) with the updated thresholds. If the incoming information exceeds an updated threshold, an alarm is generated by an alarm module of the time-bucketing data collection module. The time-bucketing data collection module may be further configured to perform the calculation of the baseline value and/or threshold in response to receiving an incoming information (or data point value). Alternatively, the calculations may be made on a periodic basis set by a user.

Claims

1. A method for improving performance thresholds comprising:

configuring a plurality of bins each representing a time interval over a week time span;

selecting a bin of said plurality of bins based on an incoming data value;

storing said incoming data value in said selected bin;

computing a revised threshold for said selected bin;

comparing said revised threshold and said incoming data value;

calculating, in response to said incoming data value, a revised baseline defining an operating range for said selected bin; and

calculating a revised baseline configured to provide an operating range for said bin in response to said incoming data value.

2. The method for improving performance thresholds according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating an alarm in response to said incoming data value exceeds said revised threshold.

3. The method for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 1, further comprising:

allocating a plurality of memory blocks, each memory block corresponding to each bin of said plurality of bins.

4. The method for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 3, further comprising:

applying said plurality of bins to a data warehouse configured to store said plurality of memory blocks.

5. The method for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating an alert in response to said incoming data value said revised threshold.

6. The method for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 3, further comprising:

calculating periodically a plurality of revised baseline values, each revised baseline value configured to provide an operating range; and

updating each revised threshold of said plurality of revised thresholds with a corresponding revised base value of said plurality of revised baseline values.

7. A system for improving accuracy of performance threshold comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory coupled to said at least one processor; and

a time-bucketing data collection module stored on said memory and executed on said at least one processor, wherein said time-bucketing data collection module is configured to determine a bin of a plurality of bins in response to an incoming data value, to store said incoming data value is said bin, to compute a revised threshold for said bin, and to compare said revised threshold and said incoming data value,

wherein said time bucketing data collection module is further configured to calculate a revised baseline configured to provide an operating range for said bin in response to said incoming data value, and to determine said revised baseline in response to said incoming data value, wherein said revised baseline is statistically analyzed to determine said new threshold.

8. The system for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 7, wherein said parameter file defines a plurality of bins over a week time span.

9. The system for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 7, wherein said time bucketing data collection module is further configured to generate an alarm in response to said incoming data value exceeds said revised threshold.

10. A method comprising:

establishing a plurality of bins;

receiving one or more data values, each data value having an associated time;

storing each of said one or more data values in one of said plurality of bins based on said associated time of each of said one or more data value; and

calculating a parameter associated with a particular one of said bins as a function of those received data values associated only with said particular one of said bins, wherein said parameter is one of a group consisting of a threshold and a filter coefficient.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein in said data values relate to a computer network.

12. A system for improving accuracy of performance threshold comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory coupled to said at least one processor;

a time-bucketing data collection module stored on said memory and executed on said at least one processor, wherein said time-bucketing data collection module is configured to determine a bin of a plurality of bins in response to an incoming data value, to store said incoming data value is said bin, to compute a revised threshold for said bin, and to compare said revised threshold and said incoming data value,

wherein said time bucketing data collection module is further configured to store said incoming data value and to apply a parameter file configured to specify said plurality of time intervals to said incoming data value to determine said received time interval of said plurality of time intervals,

wherein said parameter file defines a plurality of bins over a week time span.

13. The system for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 12, wherein said time bucketing data collection module is further configured to calculate a revised baseline configured to provide an operating range for said bin in response to said incoming data value and to determine said revised baseline in response to said incoming data value, wherein said revised baseline is statistically analyzed to determine said new threshold.

14. The system for improving accuracy of performance thresholds according to claim 12, wherein said time bucketing data collection module is further configured to generate an alarm in response to said incoming data value exceeds said revised threshold.