US 7,350,209 B2 · System and method for application performance management

Abstract

An improved method and system for complex and integrated application performance management which tracks end-to-end computer resource consumption of a first business application workflow in an enterprise system. The first business application workflow may include a plurality of components. The plurality of components may further include one or more component types. A second or subsequent business application workflow may be embedded or linked as a component of the first business application workflow. Resource usage information of the plurality of components (including resource usage information of underlying units of work of the plurality of components) may be correlated to determine cumulative resource usage information for the first business application workflow. The resource usage information may be displayed in a graphical user interface. User input may be received indicating one or more of the following for the first business application workflow: an application name, a natural business unit, and a mission-critical ranking.

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Dependent claims

A computer executed method of tracking resource usage information in an enterprise system having system components, the method comprising:

creating a first graphical workflow in a graphical user interface by interconnecting graphical components with graphical transitions between the graphic components, the graphical components representing system components associated with a first business application executing on the enterprise system, the transitions representing flow of work between interconnected system components, wherein the first graphical workflow includes at least two branching components;
assigning a probability of flow of work to one of the branching components that is not equal to probabilities assigned to the other branching components;
collecting resource usage information from one or more of the system components associated with the first business application;
correlating by computer computation the resource usage information to determine cumulative resource usage information for the first business application by using mathematical relationships associated with the graphical components and the transitions in the first graphical workflow;
and
storing the resource usage information and the cumulative resource usage information in a memory.

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A system for tracking resource usage information in an enterprise system having system components, the system comprising:

a CPU;
and
a memory medium coupled to the CPU which stores a resource usage tracking program, wherein the resource usage tracking program is executable to:
create a first graphical workflow in a graphical user interface by interconnecting graphical components with graphical transitions between the graphic components, the graphical components representing system components associated with a first business application executing on the enterprise system, the transitions representing flow of work between interconnected system components, wherein the first graphical workflow includes at least two branching components;
assign a probability of flow of work to one of the branching components that is not equal to probabilities assigned to the other branching components;
collect resource usage information from one or more of the system components associated with the first business application graphically represented by the first graphical workflow;
correlate by computer computation the resource usage information to determine cumulative resource usage information for the first business application by using mathematical relationships associated with the graphical components and the transitions in the first graphical workflow;
and
store the resource usage information and the cumulative resource usage information in a memory.

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A programmable storage device which stores program instructions for tracking resource usage information in an enterprise system having system components, wherein the program instructions are executable to implement:

creating a first graphical workflow in a graphical user interface by interconnecting graphical components with graphical transitions between the graphic components, the graphical components representing system components associated with a first business application executing on the enterprise system, the transitions representing flow of work between interconnected system components, wherein the first graphical workflow includes at least two branching components;
assigning a probability of flow of work to one of the branching components that is not equal to probabilities assigned to the other branching components;
collecting resource usage information from one or more of the system components associated with the first business application graphically represented by the first graphical workflow;
correlating by computer computation the resource usage information to determine cumulative resource usage information for the first business application by using mathematical relationships associated with the graphical components and the transitions of the first graphical workflow;
and
storing the resource usage information and the cumulative resource usage information in a memory.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for application performance management

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