System and method for determining and optimizing resources of data processing system utilized by a service request

• US 9,515,909 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bernardini, Fausto, Chang, Rong Nickle, Chang-shing, Perng, Gomadam, Karthik, Tang, Chunqiang, Tao, Tao, So, Edward Cholchin, Zhang, Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Steve
• Application Number:
  US13/837,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20130205023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0826 for reduction of network costs H04L41/0833 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0873 Checking configuration conflicts between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/106 using time related information in packets, e.g. by adding timestamps

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for determining resources utilized by a service request in a data processing system. The method includes determining monitored relationship types from monitoring data, determining relationship domains, determining intra-domain relationships from relationships that are internal to the relationship domains and determining cross-domain relationships from the intra-domain relationships that are linked between pairs of the relationship domains, and determining resources utilized by the service request from the intra-domain and cross-domain relationships. The domains are derived from one of the relationship types that is monitored by a single monitoring application.

Claims

1. A data processing system to determine resource utilization, the system comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

a computer program stored in the memory, the program comprising instructions to;

receive monitoring data from each of a plurality of different monitoring applications;

determine containment and invocation relationships from the monitoring data,

wherein the containment relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of first data objects is contained within another one of the first data objects to identify at least one containee or whether the corresponding first data object contains another one of the first data objects to identify at least one container,

wherein the invocation relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of second data objects is calling another one of the second data objects to identify at least one caller or whether the corresponding second data object is being called by another one of the second data objects to identify at least one callee;

determine resources utilized by a service request of the data processing system from the determined containment and invocation relationships by deriving server identity information for the containers, callers, callees, and the containees from the monitoring data, and determining CPU usage information from servers corresponding to the derived server identity information; and

optimize the data processing system using the CPU usage information,

wherein the processor executes the resource utilization determining program.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprises a network interface to communicate with the data processing system across a network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the program further comprises instructions to:

determine relationship domains for each relationship type in the monitoring data that is monitored by one of the monitoring applications;

determine intra-domain relationships from the relationship domains; and

determine cross-domain relationships between pairs of the relationship domains.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the program comprises application data adapters to each receive a stream of the monitoring data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the program communicates with an external subscriber using a publisher-subscriber model.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the program further comprises an instruction to provide information about the resources utilized by the service request to the subscriber of the system.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein determining cross-domain relationships comprises:

selecting a pair of the relationship domains;

identifying cross-callers and cross-callees among the selected pair of relationship domains from the monitoring data; and

determining cross-causal relationships between the cross-callees and the cross-callers.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein determining cross-domain relationships further comprises determining quasi-equal relationships from the cross-causal relationships that correspond to the relationship domains that are based on a same one of the relationship types.

9. A computer-implemented method for determining resources utilized by a service request in a data processing system, the method comprising:

receiving monitoring data from each of a plurality of different monitoring applications;

determining containment and invocation relationships from the monitoring data,

wherein the containment relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of first data objects is contained within another one of the first data objects to identify at least one containee or whether the one first data object contains another one of the first data objects to identify at least one container,

wherein the invocation relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of second data objects is calling another one of the second data objects to identify at least one caller or whether the corresponding second data object is being called by another one of the second data objects to identify at least one callee;

determining resources utilized by a service request of the data processing system from the determined containment and invocation relationships by deriving server identity information for the containers, callers, callees and the containees from the monitoring data, and determining CPU usage information from servers corresponding to the derived server identity information; and

optimizing the data processing system using the CPU usage information.

10. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for determining resources utilized by a service request in a data processing system, the method steps comprising:

receiving monitoring data from each of a plurality of different monitoring applications;

determining containment and invocation relationships from the monitoring data,

wherein the containment relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of first data objects is contained within another one of the first data objects to identify at least one containee or whether the one first data object contains another one of the first data objects to identify at least one container,

wherein the invocation relationships indicate whether each of a plurality of second data objects is calling another one of the second data objects to identify at least one caller or whether the corresponding second data object is being called by another one of the second data objects to identify at least one callee;

determining resources utilized by a service request of the data processing system from the determined containment and invocation relationships by deriving server identity information for the containers, callers, callees and the containees from the monitoring data, and determining CPU usage information from servers corresponding to the derived server identity information; and

optimizing the data processing system using the CPU usage information.