Method for multidimensional visual correlation of systems management data displaying orchesteration action threshold

• US 7,401,142 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2004
• Issued: 07/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kumhyr, David Bruce, Childress, Rhonda L., Pennell, Neil Raymond
• Primary Examiner(s): Pwu; Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ali; Farhad
• Application Number:
  US10/753,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20050198576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 715/733, 715/736
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring the performance of a system. The mechanism of the present invention provides an interface in the form of a graphical user interface (GUI) to communicate multiple layers of system performance data to an operator. An operator monitors this display of information and uses it to determine how to adjust the system to optimize system performance. This mechanism of the present invention provides immediate feedback to an operator by displaying a trail of metric points, wherein the metric points indicate the status of system performance over a period of time. In this manner, the display mechanism of the present invention immediately conveys to an operator whether the system is operating within predefined margins, the results of performance adjustments made to the system, as well as predictions or trends for the system.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for monitoring system performance and communicating acceptable parameters of system operation via an enhanced graphical user interface, comprising:

obtaining system performance data at set intervals according to a system configuration to determine a current performance status of a system;

determining a type of display graphic for the system performance data;

calculating service level agreement boundaries of acceptable system operation using contractual data in a service level agreement for the type of display graphic, wherein the service level agreement boundaries represent the service level agreement at a current time, and wherein the service level agreement boundaries change according to predefined time periods specified the service level agreement;

updating system performance status markers, which indicate system performance at particular points in time, based on the current performance status of the system;

displaying the updated system performance status markers and the service level agreement boundaries of acceptable system operation within a target-type management vector display having a vertical axis and horizontal axis, wherein the target-type management vector display includes regions representing levels of system performance, wherein a target performance state of the system is a point where the vertical axis and horizontal axis meet on the target-type management vector display, wherein positions of the system status performance markers reflect system performance at particular points in time, and wherein a position of a current system performance status marker in relation to the service level agreement boundaries indicates whether current system performance adheres to the service level agreement;

responsive to a determination that the current system performance does not adhere to the service level agreement, determining if the current system performance status marker is located outside of a current orchestration action threshold; and

responsive to a determination that the current system performance status marker is located outside of a current orchestration action threshold, autonomically reallocating system resources to adjust the current system performance to the target performance state of the system.