Protection status determinations for computing devices

• US 9,397,907 B1
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eFolder, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Axcient
• Inventors: Edwards, William Scott, Aguilera, Teresa
• Primary Examiner(s): Thieu, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US13/789,565
• Time in Patent Office: 1,230 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/220, 709/229, 709/203, 707/654, 707/634, 707/640
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/079 Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Systems, methods, and media that provide backup protection statuses for computing devices are provided herein. Some methods may include determining a backup status for a first computing device, assigning a protection status for the first computing device based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the first computing device, and transmitting the protection status to a monitoring device utilized by an end user.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

obtaining a backup status for a first computing device;

assigning a protection status for the first computing device based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the first computing device, the protection status indicating whether backup services for the first computing device are being executed in accordance with the compliance schema established for the first computing device or has not been executed in accordance with the compliance schema established for the first computing device;

transmitting the protection status to a monitoring device utilized by an end user to locate and determine an explanation for why the first computing device has not been backed up properly, the transmitting including generating a graphical user interface which comprises a visual indicator that represents the protection status of the first computing device;

interrogating a replication receiver system to determine a backup status for each of a plurality of computing devices;

assigning a protection status to each of the plurality of computing devices;

sorting the plurality of computing devices into groups according to their protection statuses; and

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the compliance schema comprises a time bounded threshold that defines a maximum period of time in which a backup must be successfully executed before the compliance schema is considered violated.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising generating the compliance schema from user-defined thresholds.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the compliance schema as a template.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising providing the template to a second client for use with a second computing device, the second client being different from a first client that owns the first computing device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the backup status comprises any of network connectivity information, backup attempt information, entitlement capacity information, and any combination thereof.

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

detecting changes to the computing device workload and network bandwidth availability; and

changing a dynamic threshold to selectively modify the compliance schema based on the detected changes to both the computing device workload and network bandwidth availability.

8. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising;

obtaining a backup status for a first computing device;

assigning a protection status for the first computing device based upon a comparison of the backup status and a compliance schema for the first computing device;

generating a graphical user interface that includes the protection status;

interrogating a replication receiver system to determine a backup status for each of a plurality of computing devices;

assigning a protection status to each of the plurality of computing devices;

sorting the plurality of computing devices into groups according to their protection statuses; and

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising applying the compliance schema to a plurality of computing devices, the first computing device being one of the plurality of computing devices.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising applying a custom compliance schema to one or more of the plurality of computing devices.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising transmitting an alert message when the protection status indicates that the first computing device has not been backed up according to the compliance schema.

12. The system according to claim 8, wherein the compliance schema comprises a time bounded threshold that defines a maximum period of time in which a backup must be successfully executed before the compliance schema is considered violated.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising selectively modifying the compliance schema using dynamic thresholds.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein the logic when executed is further operable to perform operations comprising storing the compliance schema as a template.

15. The system according to claim 14, further comprising providing the template to a second client for use with a second computing device, the second client being different from a first client that owns the first computing device.

16. A method, comprising:

assigning a compliance schema to a computing device;

obtaining backup information for the computing device, the backup information including a backup status;

assigning a protection status for the computing device based upon comparing the backup information to the assigned compliance schema;

determining whether or not backup services for the computing device are being executed in accordance with the assigned compliance schema established for the computing device;

generating a graphical user interface that includes a visual indicator that represents the determination of whether or not backup services for the computing device are being executed in accordance with the assigned compliance schema established for the computing device;

generating an alert message if the determination indicates the computing device has not been backed up in accordance with the assigned compliance schema;

transmitting the alert message to a monitoring device;

interrogating a replication receiver system to determine a backup status for each of a plurality of computing devices;

assigning a protection status to each of the plurality of computing devices;

sorting the plurality of computing devices into groups according to their protection statuses; and

generating a graphical user interface that includes one or more lists that comprise the plurality of computing devices which have been sorted according to their protection statuses.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising transmitting the alert message to the monitoring device via at least one of an SMS message and an email.