Path performance mini-charts

• US 9,202,304 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Baenziger, Rony R., Yehuda, Hanna, Roberts, Gary K., Hubbard, JoAnne, Arakelian, Mark A., Leskow, Katarzyna
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, M Good
• Application Number:
  US13/629,805
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 345/440
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/06 Ray-tracing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

A system provides for display of results from performance data analysis that presents mini-chart overlays on a topology map based on intelligent analytics for components in a I/O data path of a host or other object. The mini-charts may be advantageously used to show criticality of impact to assist a user with incident avoidance and/or to provide fast incident resolution. When launching into the topology map, the user may enable mini-charts and visually see from the charts where a possible performance bottleneck is detected by the analytics. In an embodiment, the mini-charts for the most relevant metrics may be displayed and identified for criticality, such as by color. The colors may be determined by thresholds, that may be set by a user and/or determined by the system, and may be calculated automatically based on learned base line, maximum line and minimum line operations over set times.

Claims

1. A method for displaying performance data, comprising:

generating a mini-chart, wherein the mini-chart corresponds to a full data chart that displays collected performance data for at least one object of an I/O path;

displaying the mini-chart as an overlay on a topology map showing objects of the I/O path, wherein the mini-chart is displayed in a position on the topology map adjacent to the least one object of the I/O path displayed on the topology map, wherein the mini-chart is a smaller image of the full data chart and presents at least a portion of the performance data collected for the least one object of the I/O path but wherein the mini-chart presents less data than the full data chart, and wherein displaying the mini-chart on the topology map includes assigning a color to the mini-chart on the topology map according to a criticality determination and based on a color coded criticality schema; and

enabling selection of the mini-chart, wherein selection of the mini-chart causes display of the full data chart corresponding to the mini-chart.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the criticality determination includes determining whether a threshold is reached corresponding to the collected performance data.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the threshold is dynamically set over time based on analytics determined from the collected performance data.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating the topology map; and

displaying the topology map on a display.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

collecting the performance data for the at least one object of the data path.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mini-chart is one of a plurality of mini-charts that are generated and displayed on the topology map, wherein each of the mini-charts corresponds to each of a plurality of full data charts, and wherein each of the plurality of mini-charts are displayed in a color on the topology map according to the criticality determination and the color coded criticality schema.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein selection of multiple ones of the plurality of the mini-chart causes display of multiple full data charts at a same time on a display.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing software for displaying performance data, the software comprising:

executable code that generates a mini-chart, wherein the mini-chart corresponds to a full data chart that displays collected performance data for at least one object of an I/O path;

executable code that displays the mini-chart as an overlay on a topology map showing objects of the I/O path, wherein the mini-chart is displayed in a position on the topology map adjacent to the least one object of the I/O path displayed on the topology map, wherein the mini-chart is a smaller image of the full data chart and presents at least a portion of the performance data collected for the least one object of the I/O path but wherein the mini-chart presents less data than the full data chart, and wherein displaying the mini-chart on the topology map includes assigning a color to the mini-chart on the topology map according to a criticality determination and based on a color coded criticality schema; and

executable code that enables selection of the mini-chart, wherein selection of the mini-chart causes display of the full data chart corresponding to the mini-chart.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the criticality determination includes determining whether a threshold is reached corresponding to the collected performance data.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the threshold is dynamically set over time based on analytics determined from the collected performance data.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the software further comprises:

executable code that generates the topology map; and

executable code that displays the topology map on a display.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the software further comprises:

executable code that collects the performance data for the at least one object of the data path.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the mini-chart is one of a plurality of mini-charts that are generated and displayed on the topology map, wherein each of the mini-charts corresponds to each of a plurality of full data charts, and wherein each of the plurality of mini-charts are displayed in a color on the topology map according to the criticality determination and the color coded criticality schema.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein selection of multiple ones of the plurality of the mini-chart causes display of multiple full data charts at a same time on a display.

15. A system for displaying performance data, comprising:

a display; and

a performance data collection tool that collects performance data for at least one object of an I/O data path; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium storing software, executed by at least one processor, for displaying performance data, the software comprising;

executable code that generates a mini-chart, wherein the mini-chart corresponds to a full data chart that displays collected the performance data for the at least one object of the I/O path;

executable code that displays the mini-chart as an overlay on a topology map showing objects of the I/O path, wherein the mini-chart is displayed in a position on the topology map adjacent to the least one object of the I/O path displayed on the topology map, wherein the mini-chart is a smaller image of the full data chart and presents at least a portion of the performance data collected for the least one object of the I/O path but wherein the mini-chart presents less data than the full data chart, and wherein displaying the mini-chart on the topology map includes assigning a color to the mini-chart on the topology map according to a criticality determination and based on a color coded criticality schema; and

executable code that enables selection of the mini-chart, wherein selection of the mini-chart causes display of the full data chart corresponding to the mini-chart.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the criticality determination includes determining whether a threshold is reached corresponding to the collected performance data.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the threshold is dynamically set over time based on analytics determined from the collected performance data.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein the software further comprises:

executable code that generates the topology map; and

executable code that displays the topology map on the display.

19. The system according to claim 15, wherein the mini-chart is one of a plurality of mini-charts that are generated and displayed on the topology map, wherein each of the mini-charts corresponds to each of a plurality of full data charts, and wherein each of the plurality of mini-charts are displayed in a color on the topology map according to the criticality determination and the color coded criticality schema.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein selection of multiple ones of the plurality of the mini-chart causes display of multiple full data charts at a same time on a display.