Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090172168 | PROGRAM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING SERVERS TO TARGET SYSTEM - Server management data describes observed operating condition of a pool of spare servers. Based on a demand forecast of a specific target system, a dynamic allocation period is determined as a period during which the target system needs additional server resources to handle an expected demand. Based on the dynamic allocation period and server management data, a set of allocation candidates are nominated from the spare server pool, by eliminating therefrom spare servers which are likely to fail during the dynamic allocation period. An appropriate allocation candidate is then selected for allocation to the target system, such that the selected candidate will satisfy a specified requirement during its allocation period. | 07-02-2009 |
20090249124 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS, VERIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A main step is retrieved from an operations process subject to verification. Mapping information is referenced to further retrieve a preventive measure against an error expected upon execution of the main step. Based on the order in which the preventive measure is executed within the operations process, it is determined whether the preventive measure has been incorporated into the operations process at a correct position and a result of the determination is output. | 10-01-2009 |
20100241751 | RESOURCE LENDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND RESOURCE LENDING METHOD - A resource lending control apparatus stores an assignment time and a deletion time in association with each other for each customer. The assignment time indicates a time for assigning an application used by each customer to provide a service to a server. The deletion time indicates a time for deleting the application from the server. The resource lending control apparatus calculates a lendable period of a remaining fixed resource of a lending customer by subtracting the deletion time and the assignment time of the lending customer from a remaining fixed period. The resource lending control apparatus calculates a total borrowing period, i.e., a period during which a borrowing customer is to use a borrowed resource, by adding the deletion time and the assignment time of the borrowing customer to a borrowing request period. Then, the resource lending control apparatus determines whether the calculated total borrowing period is covered by the calculated lendable period to determine to lend the remaining fixed resource. | 09-23-2010 |
20100251025 | OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROCESS ANALYZING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PROCESS ANALYSIS PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND PROCESS ANALYSIS METHOD - A process analyzing apparatus includes processing-identifying-information acquiring, from setting history information in which an update date and time, update-result information, and management-target identifying information, processing identifying information that is associated with the same management-target identifying information indicating that the updating processing is unsuccessful and that is associated with processing identifying information associated with an update date and time within a specific period of time from the update date and time associated with the update-result information indicating that the updating processing is unsuccessful, and failure-cause-processing estimating, from execution history information in which an execution history of each processing contained in the process is associated with the processing identifying information, processing corresponding to the processing identifying information acquired as the processing that is the cause of the failure of the processing corresponding to the processing identifying information associated with the update-result information indicating that the updating processing is unsuccessful. | 09-30-2010 |
20110161353 | Management device and management method - A management device includes a memory unit for storing configuration item information regarding configuration items to be managed and relationship information regarding relationships between the configuration items to be managed, an extracting unit for extracting, based on the information stored in the memory unit and based on predetermined constraint conditions, such relationships between the configuration items that satisfy the predetermined constraint conditions and that are not included in the relationship information, and an evaluating unit for executing an application that refers to the extracted relationships between the configuration items and obtains an evaluation result regarding the extracted relationships between the configuration items. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161740 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CANDIDATE FOR FAILURE COMPONENT - An apparatus for selecting a candidate for a failure component causing errors from a plurality of components included in a network system, the apparatus includes a processor for executing a procedure. The procedure includes determining a relation class of a relation among the plurality of components on the basis of configuration information of the network system, each of the relations being classified into one of the relation classes in accordance with a direction of an error propagation, determining an investigation range for each component having an error on the basis of investigation information including an error type of an error occurred in the each component and an investigation direction corresponding to the relation class, the investigation range being a set of the components to be investigated, and selecting a component on the basis of an appearance frequency of each component in the investigation ranges as the candidate. | 06-30-2011 |
20110173500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK SYSTEM - An apparatus for managing a network system including a plurality of components, the apparatus includes a memory that stores component type data of each component of the plurality of components, component relation data including relation information indicating a pair of components related to each other in the network system and error history data including error information of respective error components in the plurality of components. The apparatus includes a processor that executes a procedure including extracting a pair of component type data as a relation class candidate on the basis of the component type data of a pair of error components indicated by the error information in the error history data, the pair of error components being indicated by the relation information. | 07-14-2011 |
20110225160 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores therein an operation management support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring execution history information recording for each element group included in activity diagrams expressing work procedures for operation processes executed by a system, correlations between elements and access destinations thereof; searching among elements not yet selected from among all element groups, for a second element having an access destination coinciding with that of a first element selected from among all element groups, the searching performed by referring to the acquired execution history information; setting the first and the second elements as synonymous elements, if a second element is retrieved at the searching; extracting from among the element groups included in the activity diagrams including synonymous elements, a common element string of elements common among the activity diagrams that include the synonymous elements; and outputting the extracted common element string. | 09-15-2011 |
20110295891 | Search device, search method, and search program - When searching for a starting point candidate on an abnormality occurred in a first management range, if a search destination extends over a second management range, a first search device transmits a query to a second search device and requests a second search device to search for a starting point of an abnormality in the second management range. The second search device receives the query, searches the second management range for a starting point candidate of an abnormality, replaces a starting point candidate of an abnormality with a dummy configuration item, and transmits a response. Thus, the first search device can search for a starting point candidate of an abnormality without grasping a connection relationship of configuration items in the second management range. | 12-01-2011 |
20120317116 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SYSTEMS EACH INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS - An apparatus generates configuration group information by classifying, based on first log information storing messages outputted by a first plurality of configuration items of a first system, into first configuration groups each including one or more configuration items that have outputted messages having a commonality. The apparatus generates relation class information that defines, in association with the first configuration groups, first one or more message propagation relations. The apparatus classifies a second plurality of configuration items of a second system into second configuration groups included in the first configuration groups, based on the configuration group information and second log information storing messages outputted by the second plurality of configuration items, and applies second one or more message propagation relations that are associated, by the relation class information, with third configuration groups included in the second configuration groups, to the second plurality of configuration items. | 12-13-2012 |
20140019795 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, COUNTERMEASURE SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND COUNTERMEASURE SUPPORT METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a countermeasure support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes calculating a time period elapsing from an occurrence timing of a message that is of a predetermined type and related to an operation of an apparatus in a monitored system, until an occurrence timing of a fault; and outputting the calculated elapsed time period. | 01-16-2014 |
20140115165 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A resource management system includes a memory unit that stores therein performance information of a system; and a processor configured to refer to the performance information and determine whether a requirement for first performance information corresponding to a first system is satisfied when a function of the first system, originally implemented by using a resource of a first data center, is implemented by using a resource of a second data center, and implement the function by using a resource of the second data center, upon determining that the requirement for the first performance information is satisfied, and thereby build a configured system satisfying the requirement for the first performance information by using the resource of the first data center and the resource of the second data center. | 04-24-2014 |
20140250334 | DETECTION APPARATUS AND DETECTION METHOD - A detection apparatus includes first and second calculating units and a storing unit. The first calculating unit calculates, when a configuration of a system is changed or the like and a combination of messages occurs, a ratio of the number of occurrences of an event at time points corresponding to a time of occurrence of the combination to the number of occurrences of the combination. The second calculating unit calculates an indicator to determine whether the combination of the messages is used to detect occurrence of the event or to detect a sign of occurrence of the event, based on the ratio and on the number of occurrences of the event. When the indicator indicates that a condition is satisfied, the storing unit stores the combination of the messages as a combination used to detect occurrence of the event or to detect the sign of occurrence of the event. | 09-04-2014 |
20140325277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TECHNIQUE FOR MANAGING COMPUTER SYSTEM - A present method includes: identifying a component item that satisfies a predetermined condition concerning an indicator value for an influenced range within a system, from among plural component items included in the system, by using data regarding the plural component items and relationships among the plural component items; extracting component items included in a predetermined range from the identified component item, based on the data; and generating one or plural failure patterns, each of which includes one or plural sets of one component item of the extracted component items and a failure type corresponding to the one component item, by using data including, for each component item type, one or plural failure types. | 10-30-2014 |
20150085642 | CONTROL TARGET FLOW SPECIFYING METHOD AND CONTROL TARGET FLOW SPECIFYING DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes detecting a failure of a flow indicating a route on a network through which data of each tenant service provided by a tenant via a network flows; and specifying a control target flow influenced from the flow in which the failure has been detected based on association information in which each tenant service is associated with a flow of each tenant service. | 03-26-2015 |