Journaling tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9703639-B1
Application number	US-201414516036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Oct 16, 2014
Priority date	Jan 19, 2011
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

Journaling technology, in which a tool, that is separate from a journaling process executed by a server system, causes display of an interface that enables user selection of information derivable from journaling data collected by the journaling process. The tool receives, through the displayed interface, user input selecting desired information derivable from the journaling data collected by the journaling process. Based on the user input, the tool determines one or more commands that are understood by the journaling process and that control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data needed to derive the desired information. The tool controls the journaling process to execute the one or more commands, accesses journaling data retrieved through execution of the one or more commands, and reformats the accessed journaling data into a presentable format of the desired information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
providing, by an electronic device and for display, a first interface that includes information derivable from journaling data collected by a journaling process,
the journaling process being configured to record changes made to physical files;

receiving, by the electronic device and via the first interface, a selection of information to be displayed by the electronic device,
the selected information including information that is not directly recorded by the journaling process and the information that is derivable from the journaling data collected by the journaling process;

determining, by the electronic device and based on the selected information, multiple sequential commands that are understood by the journaling process and that each control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data that derives the selected information;
controlling, by the electronic device, the journaling process to execute each of the multiple sequential commands;
accessing, by the electronic device, journaling data retrieved through execution of each of the multiple sequential commands;
deriving, by the electronic device and from the accessed journaling data, additional information that is not directly recorded by the journaling process and that includes information about the changes made to the physical files;
including, by the electronic device, the additional information in a report by reformatting the accessed journaling data,
the report including a before image of audit information for the accessed journaling data and an after image of audit information for the accessed journaling data, and
the before image and the after image providing an indication of the changes made to the physical files; and

providing, by the electronic device and for display on a display screen, a second interface that includes the report with the additional information and that simultaneously includes, on the display screen, the before image and the after image.

2. The method of claim 1 , where determining, by the electronic device and based on the selected information, multiple sequential commands that are understood by the journaling process and that each control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data that derives the selected information, comprises:
determining a set of journaling data needed to derive the selected information; and
generating multiple sequential commands to retrieve the set of journaling data as the determined multiple sequential commands.

3. The method of claim 2 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with a particular time period.

4. The method of claim 2 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with one or more particular journal entry types corresponding to different operations.

5. The method of claim 2 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with a particular file.

6. The method of claim 1 , where the selected information includes file identification information and a time range.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
validating the selected information.

8. The method of claim 1 , where controlling, by the electronic device, the journaling process to execute each of the multiple sequential commands, comprises:
controlling, by the electronic device, the journaling process to iteratively execute in sequence the multiple sequential commands.

9. An electronic device, comprising:
one or more processors to:
provide, for display, a first interface that includes information derivable from journaling data collected by a journaling process,
the journaling process being configured to record changes made to physical files;

receive, via the first interface, a selection of information to be displayed by the electronic device,
the selected information including information that is not directly recorded by the journaling process and the information that is derivable from the journaling data collected by the journaling process;

determine, based on the selected information, multiple commands that are understood by the journaling process and that each control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data that derives the selected information;
control the journaling process to execute each of the multiple commands and to retrieve journaling data;
derive, from the retrieved journaling data, additional information that is not directly recorded by the journaling process and that includes information about the changes made to the physical files;
include the additional information in a report by reformatting the retrieved journaling data,
the report including a before image associated with the retrieved journaling data and an after image associated with the retrieved journaling data, and
the before image and the after image providing an indication of the changes made to the physical files; and

provide, for display on a display screen, a second interface that includes the report with the additional information and that simultaneously includes, on the display screen, the before image and the after image.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , where, when determining, based on the selected information, multiple sequential commands that are understood by the journaling process and that each control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data that derives the selected information, the one or more processors are further to:
determine a set of journaling data needed to derive the selected information; and
generate multiple sequential commands to retrieve the set of journaling data as the determined multiple sequential commands.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with a particular time period.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with one or more particular journal entry types corresponding to different operations.

13. The electronic device of claim 10 , where the set of journaling data comprises journaling data associated with a particular file.

14. The electronic device of claim 9 , where the selected information includes file identification information and a time range.

15. The electronic device of claim 9 , where the one or more processors are further to:
validate the selected information.

16. The electronic device of claim 9 , where, when controlling the journaling process to execute each of the multiple commands, the one or more processors are further to:
control the journaling process to iteratively execute in sequence the multiple sequential commands.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause the one or more processors to:
provide, for display, a first interface that includes information derivable from journaling data collected by a journaling process,
the journaling process being configured to record changes made to physical files;

receive a selection of information from the first interface,
the selected information including information that is not directly recorded by the journaling process and the information that is derivable from the journaling data collected by the journaling process;

determine, based on the selected information, multiple commands that are understood by the journaling process and that each control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data that derives the s

Assignees

• Accenture Global Services Ltd

Inventors

• Shah Jigar Hasmukhlal
• Jadhav Shailesh Nivruti
• Goyal Swapnil Manmohan
• M Chandramouli
• Mohanty Soumendra

Classifications

• G06F11/1448 Primary

  Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore · CPC title

• G06F17/30191

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/26 Primary

  Visual data mining; Browsing structured data · CPC title

• G06F11/3086

  where the reporting involves the use of self describing data formats, i.e. metadata, markup languages, human readable formats · CPC title

• G06F11/302

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