Apparatus and Method for Processing Management Information

• US 20080256102A1
• Filed: 04/15/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Bronoel, Jean-marc, Laye, Christophe, Collomb, Jean-Michel
• Granted Patent: US 7,836,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks

Abstract

An apparatus for processing management information, comprising; a processing engine operable to receive current data and store the current data in a data store, a forecaster engine operable to read past data and current data from the data store and generate forecast data, and store the forecast data in a forecast data store, and a user interface module operable to read the past data, current data and forecast data and generate a common output in accordance with the past data, current and forecast data.

Claims

1. An apparatus for processing management information, comprising;

a processing engine operable to receive current data and store the current data in a data store,

a forecaster engine operable to read data from the data store and generate forecast data, and store the forecast data in a forecast data store, and

a user interface module operable to read the past data, current data and forecast data and generate a common output in accordance with the past data, current data and forecast data.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the processing engine is operable to process the current data and wherein the apparatus comprises a forecast data processing engine operable to process the forecast data.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the processing engine and the forecast data processing engine are the same processing engine.

4. An apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the processing engine processes the current data prior to storing the current data and wherein the forecast data processing engine processes the forecast data prior to storing the forecast data.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the user interface module is operable to process the past data, current data and forecast date prior to generating the common output.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the user interface module is operable to receive a desired time input and generate the output in accordance with stored past data and stored forecast data corresponding to the desired time input.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the current data comprises one or more of network metrics values, network status values, event information and service level information.

8. A method of processing management information, comprising;

receiving current data and storing the current data in a data store,

reading past data and current data from the data store, generating forecast data, and storing the forecast data in a forecast data store, and

reading the past data, current data and forecast data and generating a common output in accordance with the past data, current data and forecast data.

9. A method according to claim 8 comprising the steps of processing the current data and processing the forecast data, wherein the steps of processing the current data and processing the forecast data engine are similar or the same.

10. A method according to claim 8 comprising receiving a desired time input and generating the output in accordance with stored past data and stored forecast date corresponding to the desired time input.