Promotion of performance parameters in distributed data processing environment

• US 9,043,185 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bender, Harald, Genther, Karin, Mailand, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): BHAT, ADITYA S
• Application Number:
  US13/670,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20130067077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/186
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3419 by assessing time

Abstract

A method of performance monitoring in a data processing environment is provided. The data processing environment includes multiple systems, each of which has resources. Each resource relates to a resource type, wherein at least one performance parameter is defined for each resource type. The method includes determining a value of the at least one performance parameter for at least one resource, aggregating performance parameter values and related resources of a resource type, creating for at least a part of the resources a next predefined aggregation level which includes all resources relating to the resource type and associating all performance parameter values to this aggregation level, and repeating the creating for at least a part of the resources a next predefined aggregation level until a predefined target aggregation level of the data processing environment has been reached.

Claims

1. Method of resource performance monitoring in a data processing environment, wherein the data processing environment comprises multiple systems and multiple resources, each system of the multiple systems comprising one or more resources of the multiple resources, wherein each resource comprises an identifiable component isolatable from one of the multiple systems and relates to a resource type of a plurality of resource types of the data processing environment, and wherein at least one performance parameter is defined for each resource type of the plurality of resource types, the method comprising:

determining a value of the respective at least one performance parameter for a subgroup of resources of at least one resource type of the plurality of resource types in the data processing environment,

aggregating determined performance parameter values of the subgroup of resources,

creating a predefined logical aggregation level which includes all resources in the subgroup and for automatically associating the performance parameter values to this predefined logical aggregation level, and

automatically repeating the creating for at least a part of the resources of the resource type one or more further predefined logical aggregation levels, above the predefined logical aggregation level, wherein each of the one or more further predefined aggregation levels comprises more resources than a previous level and comprises resources in the previous level, until a predefined target aggregation level of the data processing environment has been reached, and a logical hierarchy of resources of the resource type has been obtained.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising automatically propagating a new resource type of the data processing environment and at least one related performance parameter value to the next predefined aggregation level.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multiple systems have different types of architectures.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the multiple systems run different types of operating systems.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple systems are part of one computing complex.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource type comprises a network port type and the at least one performance parameter associated therewith comprises at least one of bytes received, bytes transmitted, or error rate.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource type comprises a file-system type and the at least one performance parameter associated therewith comprises at least one of blocks read, blocks written, total capacity, or free space.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource type comprises a memory expansion type and the at least one performance parameter associated therewith comprises at least one of memory expansion factor, true memory size, compressed pool size, or compressed pool pages.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one resource type comprises a hypervisor and the at least one performance parameter associated therewith comprises at least one of global CPU capacity, kernel mode time, user mode time, or total CPU time.