Enabling a tag to show status

• US 9,813,305 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2014
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bertram, Randal L., Hintermeister, Gregory R., North, Geraint, Tippett, Paul B.
• Primary Examiner(s): DANG, THANH HA T
• Application Number:
  US14/451,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20160043904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,190 Days
• Field of Search: 707722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation

Abstract

System, method, and computer program product to display the status of tags applied to objects in a cloud computing environment, by comparing an attribute of an object to a criterion of a tag applied to the object, wherein the object is part of the cloud computing environment, and outputting for display a graphical representation of the tag, wherein the graphical representation comprises a text of the tag and an indication of a result of the comparison.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a computer processor; and

a memory containing a program, which when executed by the processor, performs an operation to display a status of tags applied to objects in a cloud computing environment, the operation comprising;

comparing an attribute of an object to a criterion of a tag applied to the object, wherein the criterion specifies a requirement that the object must comply with as a consequence of the tag being applied to the object, and wherein the object is part of the cloud computing environment;

outputting for display a graphical representation of the tag, wherein the graphical representation comprises a text of the tag and an indication of a result of the comparison;

determining, based on the result of the comparison, that the object does not comply with the requirement;

identifying a set of actions associated with the tag, wherein the set of actions, when performed, modify at least one of the object and the cloud computing environment to cause the object to comply with the requirement;

initiating performance of the set of actions associated with the tag to cause the object to comply with the requirement;

while the set of actions are being performed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to include a progress indicator reflecting a progress toward completion of each action of the set of actions;

upon determining that performance of a first action of the set of actions failed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to indicate that the first action failed; and

outputting for display an indication of an aggregated status of each object in the cloud computing environment that the tag has been applied to.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the tag further comprises the set of actions, wherein the set of actions are performed responsive to applying the tag to the object, wherein modifying the outputted graphical representation further comprises outputting an estimated amount of time until each action of the set of actions is completed, wherein the object comprises a workload targeting a hardware resource in the cloud computing environment.

3. The system of claim 2, the operation further comprising:

upon determining that performance of a second action of the set of actions completed successfully, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to indicate that the second action completed successfully.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the criterion is compared to attributes of each of a plurality of objects in the cloud computing environment, wherein the graphical representation further comprises a representation of the result of the comparison of the criterion to each of the plurality of objects to show an overall status of the tag in the cloud computing environment.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the aggregated status is outputted for display responsive to receiving selection of the graphical representation of the tag.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of tags are defined in the cloud computing environment, wherein each tag comprises a respective criterion and action, wherein the action causes a tagged item to comply with the criterion of the tag.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation is outputted responsive to user input selecting the object, wherein the comparison determines whether the object complies with the tag criterion.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the object comprises a first object, the operation further comprising:

determining that the tag is applied to a second object comprising a workload targeting the first object, wherein the first object is a hardware resource in the cloud computing environment;

comparing an attribute of the second object to the criterion of the tag;

determining, based on the comparing, that the attribute of the second object does not comply with the requirement of the tag;

identifying a second set of actions associated with the tag, wherein the second set of actions, when performed, modify the object to cause the second object to comply with the requirement; and

initiating performance of the second set of actions associated with the tag to cause the second object to comply with the requirement.

9. The system of claim 8, the operation further comprising:

while the second set of actions are being performed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to include a progress indicator reflecting a progress toward completion of each action of the second set of actions.

10. A computer program product to display a status of tags applied to objects in a cloud computing environment, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable by a processor to perform an operation comprising;

comparing an attribute of an object to a criterion of a tag applied to the object, wherein the criterion specifies a requirement that the object must comply with as a consequence of the tag being applied to the object, and wherein the object is part of the cloud computing environment;

outputting for display a graphical representation of the tag, wherein the graphical representation comprises a text of the tag and an indication of a result of the comparison;

determining, based on the result of the comparison, that the object does not comply with the requirement;

identifying a set of actions associated with the tag, wherein the set of actions, when performed, modify at least one of the object and the cloud computing environment to cause the object to comply with the requirement;

initiating performance of the set of actions associated with the tag to cause the object to comply with the requirement;

while the set of actions are being performed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to include a progress indicator reflecting a progress toward completion of each action of the set of actions;

upon determining that performance of a first action of the set of actions failed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to indicate that the first action failed; and

outputting for display an indication of an aggregated status of each object in the cloud computing environment that the tag has been applied to.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the tag further comprises the set of actions, wherein the set of actions are performed responsive to applying the tag to the object, wherein modifying the outputted graphical representation further comprises outputting an estimated amount of time until each action of the set of actions is completed, wherein the object comprises a workload targeting a hardware resource in the cloud computing environment.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, the operation further comprising:

upon determining that performance of a second action of the set of actions completed successfully, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to indicate that the second action completed successfully.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the aggregated status is outputted for display responsive to receiving selection of the graphical representation of the tag.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the criterion is compared to attributes of each of a plurality of objects in the cloud computing environment, wherein the graphical representation further comprises a representation of the result of the comparison of the criterion to each of the plurality of objects to show an overall status of the tag in the cloud computing environment.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the graphical representation is outputted responsive to user input selecting the object, wherein a plurality of tags are defined in the cloud computing environment, wherein each tag comprises a respective criterion and action, wherein the action causes a tagged item to comply with the criterion of the tag, wherein the comparison determines whether the object complies with the tag criterion.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the object comprises a first object, the operation further comprising:

determining that the tag is applied to a second object comprising a workload targeting the first object, wherein the first object is a hardware resource in the cloud computing environment;

comparing an attribute of the second object to the criterion of the tag;

determining, based on the comparing, that the attribute of the second object does not comply with the requirement of the tag;

identifying a second set of actions associated with the tag, wherein the second set of actions, when performed, modify the object to cause the second object to comply with the requirement; and

initiating performance of the second set of actions associated with the tag to cause the second object to comply with the requirement.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, the operation further comprising:

while the second set of actions are being performed, modifying the outputted graphical representation of the tag to include a progress indicator reflecting a progress toward completion of each action of the second set of actions.