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Cluster health indicator with dynamic load correlation

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsThomas Herter, Angelo Pruscino

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with producing a proximity display of correlated load metrics associated with members of a cluster are described. One example method includes acquiring metrics data (e.g., load data) from nodes in a cluster. The example method may also include determining a cluster element state based on the metrics data and determining relationships between members of the set of related cluster elements. The method may also include identifying element metric representations for cluster elements based on cluster element states and identifying locations on a proximity display at which element metric representations are to be displayed. The locations may depend on relationships between cluster element states. The method may also include displaying element metric representations at the computed locations to produce a proximity display of correlated load metrics.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

identifying load-related data for a first set of cluster elements associated with a first user, a first service, a first resource, or a first customer, and, for each cluster element in the first set of cluster elements:
for a selected cluster element, determining a cluster element load state based on load-related data associated with the selected cluster element;
for a remainder of cluster elements in the first set, determining a cluster element load state based on load-related data associated with the remainder of cluster elements;
determining a relationship of the first cluster element load state to cluster element load states of the remainder of cluster elements;
identifying a location on a proximity display at which a cluster element metric representation for the selected cluster element is to be displayed, where the location depends, at least in part, on the relationship of the selected cluster element load state to the cluster element load states of the remainder of cluster elements;
computing a first logical center for displaying cluster element metric representations of the first set of cluster elements on the proximity display;
displaying, proximate to the first logical center, respective cluster element metric representations for respective cluster elements at respective identified locations on the proximity display;
identifying load-related data for a second set of cluster elements associated with a second user, a second service, a second resource, or a second customer, and, for each cluster element in the first set of cluster elements:
for a selected cluster element, determining a cluster element load state based on load-related data associated with the selected cluster element;
for a remainder of cluster elements in the set, determining a cluster element load state based on load-related data associated with the remainder of cluster elements;
determining a relationship of the selected cluster element load state to cluster element load states of the remainder of cluster elements;
identifying a location on a proximity display at which a cluster element metric representation for the selected cluster element is to be displayed, where the location depends, at least in part, on the relationship of the selected cluster element load state to the cluster element load states of the remainder of cluster elements;
computing a second logical center for displaying cluster element metric representations of the second set of cluster elements on the proximity display;
and
displaying, proximate to the second logical center, respective cluster element metric representations for respective cluster elements at respective identified locations on the proximity display.

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A system, comprising:

a processor;
a reader logic configured to cause the processor to acquire load-related data in real-time from two or more nodes in a cluster;
a data store to store the load-related data;
a display control logic configured to cause the processor to identify i) first load-related data from nodes associated with a first user, a first resource, or a first customer and ii) second load-related data from nodes associated with a second user, a second resource, or a second customer, the display control logic further configured to cause the processor to compute a first logical center for the first load-related data and a second logical center for the second load-related data:
a display configuration logic configured to cause the processor to determine first and second node state representations for the first and second load related data, respectively, to be displayed on a proximity display, and
where the display control logic is further configured to for each node in the first load-related data:
for a selected node, determine a load state based on load-related data associated with the selected node;
for a remainder of nodes in the first load-related data, determine a load state based on load-related data associated with the remainder of nodes;
determine a relationship of the load state of the selected node to load states of the remainder of nodes;
identify a location on a proximity display at which a first node state representation for the selected node is to be displayed, where the location depends, at least in part, on the relationship of the selected load state of the selected node to the load states of the remainder of nodes;
for each node in the second load-related data:
for a selected node, determine a load state based on load-related data associated with the selected node;
for a remainder of nodes in the second load-related data, determine a load state based on load-related data associated with the remainder of nodes;
determine a relationship of the load state of the selected node to load states of the remainder of nodes;
identify a location on a proximity display at which a second node state representation for the selected node is to be displayed, where the location depends, at least in part, on the relationship of the selected load state of the selected node to the load states of the remainder of nodes;
and
display respective first and second node state representations at respective determined locations on the proximity display, such that first node state representations are displayed proximate the first logical center and second node state representations are displayed proximate the second logical center.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

identifying load-related data for a first set of cluster elements associated with a first user, a first service, a first resource, or a first customer;
computing a first logical center for the load-related data for the first set of cluster elements;
for each cluster element in the first set of cluster elements:
for a selected cluster component, determining a first visual representation based, at least in part, on a relative load of the selected cluster component compared to other cluster components;
determining a position, proximate to the first logical center, on a proximity graph for placement of the first visual representation based, at least in part, on the relative load between the selected cluster component and the other cluster components;
identifying load-related data for a second set of cluster elements associated with a second user, a second service, a second resource, or a second customer;
computing a second logical center for the load-related data for the second set of cluster elements;
for each cluster element in the second set of cluster elements:
for a selected cluster component, determining a second visual representation based, at least in part, on a relative load of the selected cluster component compared to other cluster components;
determining a position, proximate the second logical center, on the proximity graph for placement of the second visual representation based, at least in part, on the relative load between the selected cluster component and the other cluster components;
and
displaying the proximity graph.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/152,535Filed 15 May 2008
Published: US 2009/0287720 A119 Nov 2009
Granted: 1 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 11/3006
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system is…
G06F 11/3082
Where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting: the data…
G06F 11/328
Display of status information: computer systems status display
G06F 11/3433
For performance assessment: for load management