Operation management method and operation management apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10235210-B2
Application number	US-201615091841-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2016
Priority date	Apr 10, 2015
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

An operation management apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores therein operation scenario execution information including a first operation scenario and parallel execution information. The first operation scenario indicates an order of execution of a plurality of operation manipulations for a plurality of servers. The parallel execution information indicates whether the respective operation manipulations are to be executed in parallel with another operation manipulation. The processor acquires availability information indicating whether the respective servers are available. The processor generates execution determination information on basis of the operation scenario execution information when the availability information indicates existence of an unavailable server. The execution determination information indicates whether respective first operation manipulations are to be actually executed in execution of the first operation scenario. The first operation manipulations are indicated by the parallel execution information as to be executed in parallel with another operation manipulation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
storing, in a memory, an operation scenario that defines an order of a plurality of operations and a plurality of parallel operations collectively executed by a plurality of servers in a computer system in which each of the plurality of parallel operations is executed in parallel with another operation of the plurality of operations;
monitoring a status of each of the plurality of servers to obtain information regarding whether each of the plurality of servers is available or unavailable;
determining an availability status of the plurality of servers and acquiring, based on a result of the determining, availability information indicating whether an unavailable server exists among the plurality of servers;
retrieving the operation scenario stored in the memory, and generating execution determination information based on the operation scenario retrieved from the memory and the availability status of the plurality of servers when the availability information indicates existence of the unavailable server, the execution determination information indicating a determination of whether each of the plurality of parallel operations will be executed or not based on the availability status of the plurality of servers;
generating an alternate operation scenario by excluding, from the execution determination information generated in advance of the generating of the alternate operation scenario, one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed based on the execution determination information generated in advance, the generating of the alternate operations scenario being performed only when execution of the plurality of parallel operations does not begin to be performed;
generating a secondary alternate operation scenario which is obtained by excluding one or more of the parallel operations determined to be executed based on the execution determination information; and
executing the alternate operation scenario thereby automatically excluding the one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein the execution determination information indicates that execution of a parallel operation having an antecedent dependency with another parallel operation scheduled to be executed by the unavailable server is also suppressed in addition to the another parallel operation.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1 , the process comprising generating the alternate operation scenario when execution of the operation scenario has begun.

4. An operation management method, comprising:
storing, in a memory, an operation scenario that defines an order of a plurality of operations and a plurality of parallel operations collectively executed by a plurality of servers in a computer system in which each of the plurality of parallel operations is executed in parallel with another operation of the plurality of operations;
monitoring a status of each of the plurality of servers to obtain information regarding whether each of the plurality of servers is available or unavailable;
determining an availability status of the plurality of servers and acquiring, based on a result of the determining, availability information indicating whether an unavailable server exists among the plurality of servers;
retrieving the operation scenario stored in the memory, and generating execution determination information based on the operation scenario retrieved from the memory and the availability status of the plurality of servers when the availability information indicates existence of the unavailable server, the execution determination information indicating a determination of whether each of the plurality of parallel operations will be executed or not based on the availability status of the plurality of servers;
generating an alternate operation scenario by excluding, from the execution determination information generated in advance of the generating of the alternate operation scenario, one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed based on the execution determination information generated in advance, the generating of the alternate operations scenario being performed only when execution of the plurality of parallel operations does not begin to be performed;
generating a secondary alternate operation scenario which is obtained by excluding one or more of the parallel operations determined to be executed based on the execution determination information; and
executing the alternate operation scenario thereby automatically excluding the one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed.

5. An operation management apparatus, comprising:
a memory storing an operation scenario that defines an order of a plurality of operations and a plurality of parallel operations collectively executed by a plurality of servers in a computer system in which each of the plurality of parallel operations is executed in parallel with another operation of the plurality of operations; and
a processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
monitor a status of each of the plurality of servers to obtain information regarding whether each of the plurality of servers is available or unavailable,
determine an availability status of the plurality of servers and acquire availability information indicating whether an unavailable server exists among the plurality of servers,
retrieve the operation scenario stored in the memory, and generate execution determination information based on the operation scenario retrieved from the memory and the availability status of the plurality of servers when the availability information indicates existence of the unavailable server, the execution determination information indicating a determination of whether each of the plurality of parallel operations will be executed or not based on the availability status of the plurality of servers,
generate an alternate operation scenario by excluding, from the execution determination information generated in advance of the generating of the alternate operation scenario, one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed based on the execution determination information generated in advance, the generating of the alternate operations scenario being performed only when execution of the plurality of parallel operations does not begin to be performed,
generating a secondary alternate operation scenario which is obtained by excluding one or more of the parallel operations determined to be executed based on the execution determination information, and
execute the alternate operation scenario thereby automatically excluding the one or more parallel operations determined not to be executed.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Mutoh Takeya
• Nagao Tokutomi
• Miyagi Toshihide
• Kiyoumi Yuta
• Fujie Hiroyuki
• Matsumoto Akiko
• Obinata Shunichi

Classifications

• G06F9/5066 Primary

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