Management system for computer system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10275411-B2
Application number	US-201415120917-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2014
Priority date	Sep 29, 2014
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

A management system (A) assigns a priority to each of a plurality of elements matching a predetermined condition based on management information including information representing a relation among elements and information representing a metric of each of the elements, (B) displays a visual representing a visual priority given to each of element based on one or more priorities given in (A), (C) when receiving selection of the elements from the visual displayed in (B), selects a higher or lower level layer of a layer containing a selected element, and selects one or more elements related to the selected element and contained in the selected layer, based on a level relation among a plurality of layers and a correlation between element types and layers, and (D) performs (A) with the one or more elements selected in (C) treated as the one or more elements matching the predetermined condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
(A) assign priorities to each of one or more elements matching a predetermined condition based on management information including information representing a relation among elements and information representing a metric for each of the one or more elements;
(B) cause a display to render visual representations that depict the priorities assigned to each of the one or more elements, wherein a display size of each of the visual representations on the display is determined based on a lowest priority of-the priorities assigned to each of the one or more elements in (A);
(C) when receiving selection of one of the elements from the visual displayed in (B), selects a second layer representing a higher-level layer or a lower-level layer of a first layer representing a layer containing a selected element, and selecting one or more elements related to the selected element and contained in the second layer, based on a level relation among a plurality of layers and a correlation between element types and layers; and
(D) performs (A) with the one or more elements selected in (C) treated as the one or more elements matching the predetermined condition.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when a visual is displayed in (N+1)th (B) after displaying a visual in an Nth (B) (N=natural number), at least a part of a display range of the visual of (N+1)th (B) overlaps at least a part of a display range of a visual of Nth (B),
wherein the visual contains an object representing a display object of each of at least one element represented by the visual, and
wherein the object of an element selected in (C) after Nth (B) is enlarged by animation in such a way as to have a size which covers the display range of the visual of (N+1)th (B), and the visual of (N+1)th (B) is displayed as an enlarged element object.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in (B), a visual is displayed in a visual region in a management screen having the visual region and a downward-view region,
wherein a downward-view object is displayed in the downward-view region,
wherein the downward-view object is a display object representing that selection of which element contained in which layer results in the display of the visual in the visual region, and
wherein the downward-view object on the management screen where the visual of (N+1)th (B) is displayed represents a layer containing identification information of an element selected in (C) following the Nth (B) and the selected element.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 3 ,
wherein, when a move-to-lower-level-layer manipulation is received for the selected element in (C), the second layer is a lower-level layer to the first layer,
wherein the move-to-lower-level-layer manipulation is a user manipulation for displaying an element related to the selected element and contained in a lower-level layer of a layer containing the element,
wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(E) when receiving a return manipulation for a visual of Mth (B) (where M is an integer equal to or larger than 2), return the visual on the visual region on the management screen to an (M−1)th visual from a visual of Mth (B), and
wherein the return manipulation is a user manipulation for returning the visual on the visual region to a visual displayed one display before the display of the visual.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 4 ,
wherein, when a move-to-higher-level-layer manipulation is received for the selected element in (C), the second layer is a higher-level layer to the first layer,
wherein the move-to-higher-level-layer manipulation is a user manipulation for displaying an element related to the selected element and contained in a higher-level layer of a layer containing the element,
wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(E) when receiving a display-metric-type changing manipulation, update a display of each of at least one element object contained in the visual on the management screen to display according to a priority based on a metric of an element corresponding to the element object, the metric corresponding to a changed display metric type according to the display-metric-type changing manipulation,
wherein the display metric type is a metric type, among a plurality of metric types, of a metric based on which the priority is calculated, and
wherein the display-metric-type changing manipulation is a user manipulation for changing the display metric type.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(F) when receiving selection of a highlighting element representing an element to be subjected to highlighting, specify a highlighting related element representing an element related to the highlighting element from the management information, wherein
wherein a visual includes an element object representing a display object of each of at least some elements in one or more elements represented by the visual, and
wherein, in (B), when a highlighting related element is included in the at least some elements in one or more elements represented by the visual, a highlighting object representing a display object representing identification information of the highlighting element is displayed in an element object of the highlighting related element in association therewith.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein a visual includes an element object representing a display object of each of at least some elements in one or more elements represented by the visual, and
wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(G) when receiving a marking manipulation representing a user manipulation for designating a marking time representing a time to be marked for at least one element object represented by a visual, register the marking time, and
wherein, in (B), if the marking time is registered, a mark is displayed in a position in each graph in the at least one element object represented by the visual, the position corresponding to the marking time.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(H) when receiving a priority changing manipulation, change the priority according to the priority changing manipulation, and changing the visual of (B) to a visual according to the priority that is changed.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause to the processor to:
(I) when receiving a display-period changing manipulation, change a display period according to the display-period changing manipulation, and changing the visual of (B) to a visual according to the changed display period,
wherein the visual displayed in (B) executed after (I) is the visual according to the changed display period,
wherein the display period represents metric range, among time-series metrics, which become a basis of giving priority, and
wherein the metric range is metrics from a time which is a start point of the display period to a time which is an end point of the display period.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein, of the plurality of layers, two or more layers higher than a predetermined layer and including a l

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Kura Toshihiro
• Nogami Daisuke
• Fujii Tsutomu
• Uchiyama Yasufumi
• Ban Masahide
• Washio Tomoto
• Nakanishi Masashi
• Sasanabe Chizuko

Classifications

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F2201/81

  Threshold · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• G06F16/26 Primary

  Visual data mining; Browsing structured data · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title