Policy creation support method, policy creation support system, and program therefor

• US 8,285,836 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Haga, Futoshi, Morimura, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Macilwinen, John
• Application Number:
  US11/947,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 709/226
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3433 for load management allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold

Abstract

A policy creation support system is provided, which is capable of reducing cost for creation of an effective autonomic control policy. The policy creation support system measures information indicating performance of a monitoring target system, with regard to a monitoring item of a designated type, for each resource amount of an expandable resource, and selects one representative measurement value from among measurement values on a resource-amount basis. Then, the policy creation support system outputs the monitoring item, the resource amount serving as the monitoring item, and a range of the measurement value corresponding to the resource amount, as a countermeasure decision condition within a policy, by setting a range including the selected representative measurement value as the range of the measurement value.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a monitoring target system including a plurality of resources, and providing a service using the resources;

a policy creation support system, executed at least in part by a hardware processor, controlling the monitoring target system based on a service level agreement (SLA) including a range of a service metric for the service,

wherein for assigned resources which will be used to provide the service, the policy creation support system stores an autonomic control policy including;

(1) a threshold metric of a certain resource, and

(2) an action executed if the threshold metric is satisfied,

wherein for said assigned resources which will be used to provide the service, the autonomic control policy is created by the policy creation support system according to;

(A) generating a workload of the service;

(B) obtaining a metric of currently used resources at a time corresponding to a violation of the range in the autonomic control policy about the service metric;

(C) calculating the threshold metric of the autonomic control policy, based on the obtained metric,

wherein the action in the autonomic control policy is to use an additional resource for providing the service; and

wherein obtained metrics used in the calculating are designated by a template stored in the policy creation support system.

2. A system comprising:

a monitoring target system including plural resources, and providing a service using the resources;

a policy creation support system, executed at least in part by a hardware processor, controlling the monitoring target system based on requirements of a service level agreement (SLA) including a range of a service metric for the service,

wherein for each combination of the resources which will be used to provide the service, the policy creation support system stores an autonomic control policy including;

(1) a threshold metric of a certain resource, and

(2) an action executed if the threshold metric is satisfied,

wherein for said each combination of the resources which will be used to provide the service, the autonomic control policy is created by the policy creation support system according to;

(A) generating a workload of the service;

(B) obtaining a metric of currently used resources at a time corresponding to a violation of the range of the service metric for the service;

(C) calculating the threshold metric of the autonomic control policy, based on the obtained metric,

wherein the action in the autonomic control policy is to use an additional resource for providing the service; and

wherein obtained metrics used in the calculating are designated by a template stored in the policy creation support system.