System and method for assessing and indicating the health of components

• US 7,617,073 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2003
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Trinon, Jean-Marc, Pignault, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Wachsman; Hal D
• Application Number:
  US10/377,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20040024571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,447 Days
• Field of Search: 702/183, 702/123, 702/185, 702/186
• US Class Current: 702/183
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method for visualization of the components of an enterprise system and the rendering of information about the health or status of the enterprise system, its components, and/or its subcomponents. The invention uses a combination of color codes or other indicators and a combination of algorithms and/or rules-based systems to control the computation of status/severities to associate to components and setup the color codes and indicators.

Claims

1. A system for indicating the health status of an IT component and at least one IT subcomponent comprising:

an IT component processor adapted to compute a component health status of the IT component;

an IT subcomponent processor adapted to compute a subcomponent health status for the at least one IT subcomponent; and

a renderer adapted to display the health status of the IT component by showing a first indicator for the IT component and a second indicator for the at least one IT subcomponent, wherein the first and second indicator are each separately visible at the same time on a single display window of a display unit.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first indicator and the second indicator are colors.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the IT component processor further comprises a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status of the IT component.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the IT subcomponent processor further comprises a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status of the at least one IT subcomponent.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the IT component processor and the IT subcomponent processor are the same processor.

6. A system of assessing a plurality of IT components wherein each IT component has a plurality of IT subcomponents, the system comprising:

the system for indicating the health status of an IT component and at least one IT subcomponent of claim 1; and

a graphical user interface adapted to display the health status of each IT component and each IT subcomponent.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor comprise a rules-based system to control the computation of the health status of the IT components and IT subcomponents.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor comprise an algorithm to control the computation of the health status of the IT components and IT subcomponents.

9. The system of claim 6 wherein each IT component processor and each IT subcomponent processor is the same processor.