US 2018/0321969 A1 · PRIORITIZING MANAGED DEVICES FOR IT MANAGEMENT

Abstract

A management resource and method monitor management operations associated with a group of managed devices, assign significance factors the management operations, and record instance information, identifying the managed device and the management operation, for each management operation performed. For each managed device, an interest factor is determined for each management operation. Weighting factors are determined for each managed device based on the interest factors and the significance factors. A management console display may be generated wherein the display indicates, whether in graphical or textual form, high priority managed devices, where the high priority devices are selected from the entire population of managed devices, based on the weighting factors. The IT administrator may adjust a weighting factor threshold to adjust the magnitude or extent of the filtering.

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Dependent claims

A prioritization method, comprising:

monitoring one or more management operations associated with a group of managed devices;
assigning significance factors to at least some of the one or more management operations;
recording instance information for each management operation performed, wherein the instance information identifies the managed device and the management operation;
for each managed device, determining an interest factor for each of the management operations;
determining weighting factors for each managed device in accordance with the interest factors and the significance factors;
and
generating a management console display indicative of managed devices based on the weighting factors, wherein said modifying includes filtering, from the management console display, representations of at least some managed devices based on the weighting factors.

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A management resource, comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU);
a management network interface for communicatively coupling the CPU to a group of managed devices via a management network;
and
a computer readable medium including instructions, executable by the CPU wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the management resource to perform operations comprising:
monitoring one or more management operations associated with the group of managed devices;
assigning significance factors to at least some of the one or more management operations;
recording instance information for each management operation performed, wherein the instance information identifies the managed device and the management operation;
for each managed device, determining an interest factor for each of the management operations;
determining weighting factors for each managed device in accordance with the interest factors and the significance factors;
and
generating a management console display indicative of managed devices based on the weighting factors, wherein said modifying includes filtering, from the management console display, representations of at least some managed devices based on the weighting factors.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Prioritizing managed devices for it management

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