Creating composite baselines based on a plurality of different baselines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9710353-B2
Application number	US-201514665173-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2015
Priority date	Oct 19, 2007
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

Techniques that improve manageability of systems. Techniques are provided for creating different types of baselines that are more flexible and dynamic in nature. A future-based baseline may be created defining a period of time, wherein at least a portion of the period of time is in the future. A baseline may be created that is a composite of multiple baselines. In general, baselines may be specified having one or more periods of time that are either contiguous or non-contiguous. A template for creating a set of baselines based on a set of time periods may also be created, where the template can be used to create a baseline for each of the set of time periods. A moving window baseline may be created having an associated time window that changes with passage of time, where accordingly the data associated with the baseline may also dynamically change with passage of time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions for controlling a data processor to create a composite baseline, the plurality of instructions comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to receive information identifying a first baseline and a second baseline, the first baseline comprising a first baseline type and a first baseline time period that corresponds to a future time, and the second baseline comprising a second baseline type that is different from the first baseline type and a second baseline time period that is different from the first baseline time period;
instructions that cause the data processor to create the composite baseline based at least in part on a combination of performance metric data that corresponds to the first baseline time period and the second baseline time period; and
instructions that cause the data processor to process the performance metric data of the composite baseline based at least in part on the first baseline type and the second baseline type, the first baseline type comprising a future-based baseline type and the second baseline type comprising at least one of a moving window type, a non-contiguous time type, or a composite baseline type.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , the plurality of instructions further comprising instructions that cause the data processor to determine metrics data that are associated with the plurality of baselines and instructions that cause the data processor to associate the metrics data with the composite baseline.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to receive time information defining a period of time for the composite baseline; and
instructions that cause the data processor to filter the metrics data based on the time information.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to receive a criterion for the composite baseline; and
instructions that cause the data processor to filter the metrics data based on the criterion.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to define a time window;
instructions that cause the data processor to associate the time window with a first period of time;
instructions that cause the data processor to associate first metrics data based on the first period of time;
instructions that cause the data processor to associate the time window with a second period of time, the second period of time including a period of time not included in the first period of time; and
instructions that cause the data processor to associate second metrics data based on the second period of time.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 wherein the time information defines a window corresponding to a period of time of “N” days, where the “N” days is automatically updated once every predetermined time interval as time progresses.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein at least one other baseline of the plurality of baselines comprises a second baseline time period that corresponds to a past time.

8. A method for creating a composite baseline, the method comprising:
receiving, by a computer, information identifying a plurality of baselines, at least one baseline of the plurality of baselines comprising a baseline type and a baseline time period that corresponds to a future time, at least a start time or an end time of the baseline time period being initially temporally at the future time defined when performance metric data satisfies one or more conditions;
creating, by the computer, the composite baseline based at least in part on a combination of the performance metric data that corresponds to at least a subset of each baseline time period;
determining whether the performance metric data satisfies the one or more conditions at a current time;
associating the performance metric data with the start time or the end time of the baseline time period when the performance metric data satisfies the one or more conditions at the current time; and
processing, by the computer, the performance metric data of the composite baseline based at least in part on at least a subset of each baseline type.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving time information defining a period of time for the composite baseline; and
filtering the metrics data based on the time information.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving a criterion for the composite baseline; and
filtering the metrics data based on the criterion.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
defining a time window;
associating the time window with a first period of time;
associating first metrics data based on the first period of time;
associating the time window with a second period of time, the second period of time including a period of time not included in the first period of time; and
associating second metrics data based on the second period of time.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein the time information defines a window corresponding to a period of time of “N” days, where the “N” days is automatically updated once every predetermined time interval as time progresses.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein at least one other baseline of the plurality of baselines comprises a second baseline time period that corresponds to a past time.

14. A system for creating a composite baseline, the system comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a memory storing a plurality of instructions that cause the processor to:
receive information identifying a plurality of baselines, at least one baseline of the plurality of baselines comprising a baseline type and a baseline time period that corresponds to a future time, at least a start time or an end time of the baseline time period being initially temporally at the future time defined when performance metric data satisfies one or more conditions;
create the composite baseline based at least in part on a combination of the performance metric data that corresponds to at least as subset of each baseline time period;
determine whether the performance metric data satisfies the one or more conditions at a current time;
associate the performance metric data with the start time or the end time of the baseline time period when the performance metric data satisfies the one or more conditions at the current time; and
process the performance metric data of the composite baseline based at least in part on at least a subset of each baseline type.

15. The system of claim 14 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to receive time information defining a period of time for the composite baseline; and
instructions that cause the data processor to filter the metrics data based on the time information.

16. The system of claim 14 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to receive a criterion for the composite baseline; and
instructions that cause the data processor to filter the metrics data based on the criterion.

17. The system of claim 14 , the plurality of instructions further comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to define a time window;
instructions that cause t

Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Feng Michael
• Ramacher Mark
• Ngai Gary
• Wood Graham
• Beresniewicz John

Classifications

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• G06F11/3616 Primary

  using software metrics · CPC title

• G06F11/3495 Primary

  for systems · CPC title

• G06F11/3428

  Benchmarking · CPC title