Monitoring and capturing early diagnostic data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9619376-B2
Application number	US-201615248031-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2016
Priority date	Jan 23, 2013
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

A deviance monitoring module is provided for examining various parameters of an operating system for deviance from a baseline behavior at specified intervals. A range of acceptable deviance values from a baseline behavior is set for parameters of an operating system. The parameters of the operating system are then monitored at specified intervals for deviance from the baseline behavior. In response to detecting that the deviance exceeds a predetermined threshold, the method triggers diagnostic data gathering on the parameters of the operating system according to an embodiment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer program product, comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored thereon that, when executed, performs a method, the method comprising:
setting, with a processing device, a range of acceptable deviance values from a baseline behavior for parameters of an operating system, wherein a user provides the range of acceptable deviance values from the baseline behavior for parameters of the operating system;
monitoring the parameters at specified intervals for a deviance from the baseline behavior;
determining whether the deviance falls within an exception list, wherein the exception list specifies an allowable amount of deviation of the monitored parameter values from the baseline behavior and allowable time values, wherein the allowable amount of time values include a set of time units and percentages of time units for which deviation is expected and wherein the exception list also specifies a list of programs associated with the monitored parameter values;
triggering diagnostic data gathering on the parameters of the operating system in response to the deviance exceeding a predetermined threshold;
notifying interested parties of the gathered diagnostic data; and
wherein, in response to the deviance returning within a predetermined threshold within a specified amount of time specified in the exception list, the diagnostic data is logged and deleted after a predetermined period of time.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bariska Jr Arthur J
• Cousens Matthew T
• Kovalchick Eileen S
• Masser Joel L
• Mckenzie Kevin D
• Tedesco Eileen P

Classifications

• G06F11/0778

  Dumping, i.e. gathering error/state information after a fault for later diagnosis · CPC title

• G06F11/302

  where the computing system component is a software system · CPC title

• G06F11/3495

  for systems · CPC title

• G06F11/3688 Primary

  for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites · CPC title

• G06F11/0706

  the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment · CPC title