Administering incident pools for event and alert analysis

• US 8,893,157 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Carey, James E., Sanders, Philip J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Tuan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kraft, Shih-Wei
• Application Number:
  US13/710,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20130097620A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Administering incident pools including assigning an incident received from one or more components of the distributed processing system to a pool of incidents; assigning to each incident a particular combined minimum time for inclusion of the incident in the pool; in response to the pool closing, determining for each incident in the pool whether the incident has met its combined minimum time for inclusion in the pool; if the incident has been in the pool for its combined minimum time, including the incident in the closed pool; if the incident has not been in the pool for its combined minimum time, moving the incident from the closed pool to a next pool; applying incident suppression rules using the incidents assigned to the next pool; and applying incident creation rules to the incidents that were assigned to the next pool, while omitting any duplicate incidents caused by the assignment.

Claims

1. A method of administering incident pools for event and alert analysis in a distributed processing system, the method comprising:

assigning, by an incident analyzer, a plurality of incidents received from one or more components of the distributed processing system to a pool of incidents;

assigning, by the incident analyzer, to each incident assigned to the pool of incidents, a particular combined minimum time for inclusion of the incident in one or more pools;

in response to a determination that the pool of incidents is closing, determining, by the incident analyzer, for each incident in the pool of incidents, whether the incident has met its combined minimum time for inclusion in one or more pools;

if the incident has been in one or more pools for its combined minimum time, including, by the incident analyzer, the incident in a closed pool that results from the pool of incidents closing;

if the incident has not been in one or more pools for its combined minimum time, moving, by the incident analyzer, the incident to a next pool including forwarding to the next pool, by the incident analyzer, any associations between the incident and any other incidents that are included in the pool;

applying, by the incident analyzer, incident suppression rules using the incidents moved to the next pool, including preventing, in the next pool, alerts that are only generated based on incidents that generated previous alerts in the closed pool by;

identifying incidents that generated alerts in the closed pool before being moved to the next pool;

determining that a potential alert is generated in the next pool based entirely on one or more of the identified incidents; and

preventing the potential alert generated based entirely on one or more of the identified incidents for generating an alert; and

applying, by the incident analyzer, incident creation rules to the incidents moved to the next pool, while omitting any duplicate incidents caused by moving the incident to the next pool.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein applying incident suppression rules using the incidents assigned to the next pool includes suppressing one or more incidents within the next pool.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein applying incident creation rules to only incidents that were not moved from the closed pool to the next pool includes creating one or more additional incidents based on the incidents that were not moved from the closed pool to the next pool.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the additional incidents are alerts.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the incidents comprise events and the pool of incidents comprise an events pool.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the incidents comprise alerts and the pool of incidents comprise an alerts pool.

7. A method of administering incident pools for event and alert analysis in a distributed processing system, the method comprising:

assigning, by an incident analyzer, a plurality of incidents received from one or more components of the distributed processing system to a pool of incidents;

assigning, by the incident analyzer, to each incident assigned to the pool of incidents, a particular combined minimum time for inclusion of the incident in one or more pools;

in response to a determination that the pool of incidents is closing, determining, by the incident analyzer, for each incident in the pool of incidents, whether the incident has met its combined minimum time for inclusion in one or more pools;

if the incident has been in one or more pools for its combined minimum time, including, by the incident analyzer, the incident in a closed pool that results from the pool of incidents closing;

if the incident has not been in one or more pools for its combined minimum time, moving, by the incident analyzer, the incident to a next pool;

applying, by the incident analyzer, incident suppression rules using the incidents moved to the next pool, wherein applying incident suppression rules using the incidents assigned to the next pool includes preventing within the next pool, alerts that are only generated based on incidents that generated previous alerts in the closed pool;

applying, by the incident analyzer, incident creation rules to the incidents moved to the next pool, while omitting any duplicate incidents caused by moving the incident to the next pool, wherein the moving the incident to the next pool includes forwarding to the next pool, by the incident analyzer, any associations between the incident and any other incidents that are included in the pool; and

wherein applying incident creation rules to only incidents that were not moved from the closed pool to the next pool includes creating one or more additional incidents based on the incidents that were not moved from the closed pool to the next pool, wherein the additional incidents are alerts.