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US 10,121,268 B2Granted
Displaying information technology conditions with heat maps
AssigneeEntit Software LLC
InventorKlaus Baumecker
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Abstract
Displaying information technology conditions with heat maps includes determining a severity value of current issues for each configuration item in an information technology system; generating a graph of the configuration items that visually depicts topological relationships between the configuration items, the graph having a heat map overlay; and assigning pixel colors for each configuration item in the heat map overlay according to their severity value.
Claims19
A computer program product for displaying information technology conditions with heat maps, comprising:
- a tangible computer readable storage medium, said tangible computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, causes a processor to:
- determine a severity value of current issues for each configuration item of a plurality of configuration items of an information technology system, wherein the current issues are associated with a plurality of different issue types;
- generate a graph of said plurality of said configuration items that visually depicts topological relationships between said plurality of configuration items, said graph comprising a heat map overlay;
- assign pixel colors for each configuration item in said heat map overlay according to their severity value, wherein a region of said heat map overlay comprises a first pixel color of the pixel colors associated with a relatively higher severity value;
- display a second pixel color associated with a relatively lower severity value in said heat map overlay;
- and
- surround the region with the second pixel color to highlight the first pixel color.
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A system for displaying information technology conditions with heat maps, comprising:
- a monitoring engine to identify current issues of configuration items of an information technology system, wherein the current issues are associated with a plurality of different issue types;
- a graphing engine to generate a graph of said configuration items in their topological relationships;
- and
- a heat map engine to:
- overlay a heat map overlay on said graph;
- locate a corresponding position of said configuration items in said heat map overlay;
- assign severity pixel colors for each configuration item of said configuration items with said current issues in said heat map overlay according to a severity value, wherein a region of said heat map overlay comprises a first pixel color of the severity pixel colors associated with a relatively higher severity value;
- display a second pixel color associated with a relatively lower severity value in said heat map overlay;
- surround the region with the second pixel color to highlight the first pixel color;
- and
- assign a third pixel color for each configuration item of said configuration items without said current issues in said heat map overlay.
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A method for displaying information technology conditions with heat maps, comprising:
- determining a severity value of current issues for each configuration item of a plurality of configuration items of an information technology system, wherein the current issues are associated with a plurality of different issue types;
- generating a graph of said plurality of configuration items that visually depicts topological relationships between said plurality of configuration items;
- overlaying a heat map overlay on said graph;
- locating corresponding positions of said plurality of configuration items in said heat map overlay;
- assigning pixel colors for each configuration item of the plurality of configuration items in said heat map overlay according to said severity value associated with each configuration item wherein a region of said heat map overlay comprises a first pixel color of the pixel colors associated with a relatively higher severity value;
- displaying a second pixel color associated with a relatively lower severity value in said heat map overlay;
- and
- surrounding the region with the second pixel color to highlight the first pixel color.
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