Computer system and method of supporting failure investigation for it system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025265415-A1
Application number	US-202418885243-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 13, 2024
Priority date	Feb 20, 2024
Publication date	Aug 21, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A computer system is coupled to an IT system formed of elements, and a text generation system. The computer system holds element information for managing observation data obtained from the IT system, relation information for managing relevance between the elements, and scope information that defines a scope representing a range of an investigation. The computer system selects the scope in a case where a failure has occurred in the IT system, identify at least one element to be investigated based on the relation information and the selected scope; obtain the observation data relating to the identified at least one element from the element information, generate a first prompt, which includes the viewpoint corresponding to the selected scope, the identified at least one element, and the obtained observation data, and which instructs to output findings relating to the failure in the IT system, and input the first prompt.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer system, comprising:
a processor; a storage device coupled to the processor; and a network interface coupled to the processor, the computer system being coupled to: an IT system formed of a plurality of elements and configured to execute a service; and a text generation system configured to generate answer text through use of a natural language processing model in accordance with a prompt that instructs execution of a language processing task, the computer system holding: element information for managing observation data obtained from the IT system; relation information for managing relevance between the plurality of elements; and scope information that defines a scope representing a range of an investigation in a failure investigation for the IT system, the scope information storing data in which the scope and a viewpoint of analysis in the failure investigation for the IT system are associated with each other, wherein the computer system is configured to: refer to the scope information to select the scope in a case where a failure has occurred in the IT system; identify at least one of the plurality of elements to be investigated based on the relation information and the selected scope; obtain the observation data relating to the identified at least one of the plurality of elements from the element information; generate a first prompt, which includes, as text, the viewpoint corresponding to the selected scope, the identified at least one of the plurality of elements, and the obtained observation data, and which instructs to output findings relating to the failure in the IT system, and input the first prompt to the text generation system; and obtain the answer text including the findings from the text generation system.

2 . The computer system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the data includes a role being administrative authority of the IT system, wherein the computer system holds user information for managing the role assigned to a user, and wherein the computer system is configured to: generate, in a case of automatically performing the failure investigation for the IT system, the first prompt for each of a plurality of roles and input the first prompt to the text generation system; and generate, in a case of performing the failure investigation for the IT system in accordance with an instruction received from a user, the first prompt for the role assigned to the user who issued the instruction, and input the first prompt to the text generation system.

3 . The computer system according to claim 2 , wherein the computer system is configured to:
determine an order of the plurality of roles in the case of automatically performing the failure investigation for the IT system; and generate and input the first prompt in accordance with the determined order of the plurality of roles.

4 . The computer system according to claim 2 , wherein the computer system is configured to:
provide an interface for presenting the findings; and present, in a case where an instruction to present the findings is received from a user, the findings obtained through use of the first prompt for the role assigned to the user who issued the instruction.

5 . The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein the computer system is configured to generate, in a case where the findings are stored, the first prompt including the findings.

6 . The computer system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the scope included in the data comprises text data, and wherein the computer system is configured to: generate a second prompt, which includes text representing the scope and the relation information, and which instructs to identify at least one of the plurality of elements to be investigated; and input the second prompt to the text generation system to obtain the answer text including the at least one of the plurality of elements to be investigated.

7 . The computer system according to claim 1 , wherein the computer system is configured to:
generate a third prompt, which includes the observation data relating to the identified at least one of the plurality of elements, and which instructs to generate text of the observation data; and input the third prompt to the text generation system to obtain the answer text including the text of the observation data.

8 . The computer system according to claim 7 , wherein the computer system is configured to generate the third prompt after masking some of values included in the observation data.

9 . A method of supporting a failure investigation for an IT system, the method being executed by a computer system,
the computer system including: a processor; a storage device coupled to the processor; and a network interface coupled to the processor, the computer system being coupled to: the IT system formed of a plurality of elements and configured to execute a service; and a text generation system configured to generate answer text through use of a natural language processing model in accordance with a prompt that instructs execution of a language processing task, the computer system holding: element information for managing observation data obtained from the plurality of elements of the IT system; relation information for managing relevance between the plurality of elements; and scope information that defines a scope representing a range of an investigation in the failure investigation for the IT system, the scope information storing data in which the scope and a viewpoint of analysis in the failure investigation for the IT system are associated with each other, the method of supporting a failure investigation for an IT system including: a first step of referring, by the computer system, to the scope information to select the scope in a case where a failure has occurred in the IT system; a second step of identifying, by the computer system, at least one of the plurality of elements to be investigated based on the relation information and the selected scope; a third step of obtaining, by the computer system, the observation data relating to the identified at least one of the plurality of elements from the element information; a fourth step of generating, by the computer system, a first prompt, which includes, as text, the viewpoint corresponding to the selected scope, the identified at least one of the plurality of elements, and the obtained observation data, and which instructs to output findings relating to the failure in the IT system, and inputting the first prompt to the text generation system; and a fifth step of obtaining, by the computer system, the answer text including the findings from the text generation system.

10 . The method of supporting a failure investigation for an IT system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the data includes a role being administrative authority of the IT system, wherein the computer system holds user information for managing the role assigned to a user, and wherein the fourth step includes: a sixth step of generating, in a case of automatically performing the failure investigation for the IT system, by the computer system, the first prompt for each of a plurality of roles; and a seventh step of generating, in a case of performing the failure investigation for the IT system in accordance with an instruction received from a user, by the computer system, the first prompt for the role assigned to the user who issued the instruction.

11 . The method of supporting a failure investigation for an IT system according to claim 10 , wherein the sixth step includes the steps of:
determining, by the computer system, an order of the plurality of roles

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Masuda Mineyoshi
• Tameshige Takashi
• Wakui Taku

Classifications

• G06F16/3329

  Natural language query formulation · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• H04L41/5022

  by giving priorities, e.g. assigning classes of service · CPC title

• G06F40/284 Primary

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title