Application Status Board Mitigation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computer diagnostic systems lack tools to monitor and predict the completion status of application protocols across multiple systems in real-time, requiring manual logging and resulting in inefficiencies and delays in identifying and resolving software failures.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for monitoring applications across multiple systems using a rules-driven table to analyze application status, predict completion times, and provide alerts through a single status board interface, enabling real-time monitoring and quick issue resolution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual logging and checking of job logs and console messages on multiple platforms is performed, then software failure identification can be achieved, but valuable software running time is lost and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system automatically performs self-service by continuously collecting job status information from multiple platforms without requiring manual intervention. The system autonomously analyzes logs, detects failures, and notifies users, eliminating the need for support personnel to manually check each system and thereby preventing loss of software running time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary monitoring system that acts as a mediator between multiple application platforms and support personnel. This intermediary automatically collects status information from various platforms through messaging services and presents consolidated information to users, eliminating the need for manual logging into each system while maintaining accurate failure identification.
2Loss of information
If support personnel logon to multiple platforms to research job logs and console messages, then the status of applications can be determined, but time consumption increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges information from multiple platforms into a single consolidated status board that displays application status, job completion forecasts, and failure information from all monitored systems in one location. This combining of previously scattered information sources eliminates the need for support personnel to logon to multiple platforms and research individual logs, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining complete information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system provides universal functionality by simultaneously monitoring multiple application platforms, collecting diverse information types (job logs, console messages, status data), and presenting unified views through a single interface. This multi-functional system replaces the need for separate platform-specific logging activities with one universal monitoring solution that handles all information gathering and presentation.
3Reliability
If traditional monitoring tools like Tivoli are used to log job failures and alerts, then failure detection is achieved, but real-time forecasting of job completion and proactive mitigation is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by providing real-time forecasting of job completion times and predicting potential failures before they occur. The system analyzes current job progress and calculates projected completion times, allowing proactive mitigation measures to be taken before failures actually happen, thus reducing response time and preventing service interruptions rather than merely detecting them after occurrence.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system establishes continuous feedback loops that track job progress in real-time, compare actual performance against forecasts, and dynamically update completion predictions. This feedback mechanism provides ongoing information about application status and projected timelines, enabling timely interventions and proactive failure mitigation rather than reactive response after failures occur.
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AI summary
A system and method for monitoring computer applications comprising an application component table comprising a plurality of applications and application functions, wherein the applications comprise data identifying a functional status of the applications; a processor adapted to analyze the functional status of the applications based on the data; and a single status board user interface adapted to display the functional status of the applications, wherein the processor is adapted to predict when a running time of an application will be completed. The processor is adapted to determine whether the application functions fail when the applications are running; diagnose a cause of failure of the application functions; and indicate the cause of failure to a user. The processor is adapted to reconciliate information across processes supporting the applications. The system and method is adapted to send alerts to the single status board user interface of errors found in the processes.