Computer System Management Plan Generation with Performance Evaluation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing countermeasure plans for computer systems do not adequately consider the influence of processes performed under separate control, leading to potential performance changes in resource utilization and availability.

Innovation Solution

A management system that generates countermeasure plans by incorporating performance change evaluation indicators for resources affected by other processes, allowing for comprehensive consideration of these influences during plan creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If automatic processes are activated to improve availability in redundant system environments, then system availability is improved, but the influence of these separate processes on resource performance is not considered when creating countermeasure plans

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem availabilityVSAvoidperformance change information
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis by identifying other subjects' processes that may be executed when a countermeasure plan is implemented. Performance change information regarding these processes is obtained in advance and stored, so that when a countermeasure plan is created, the impact on resource performance can be evaluated beforehand rather than discovered after execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where performance change information from other subjects' processes is fed back into the countermeasure plan creation process. This feedback loop allows the plan creation unit to consider the impact of automatic processes on resource performance, enabling more accurate and comprehensive countermeasure planning that accounts for system-wide effects.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If countermeasure plans are created without considering other processes, then plan creation is simplified, but resource utilization efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplan creation simplicityVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically identifying other subjects' processes and obtaining their performance change information without requiring manual input from operators. The plan creation unit automatically integrates this information into countermeasure plans, maintaining ease of operation while improving resource utilization efficiency through comprehensive consideration of system-wide impacts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If performance change evaluation indicators are generated for all resources, then comprehensive performance evaluation is achieved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance evaluation comprehensivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by focusing performance change evaluation on specific resources that are actually affected by other subjects' processes, rather than uniformly evaluating all resources. The indicator generation unit identifies and evaluates only the relevant resources impacted by the countermeasure plan and other processes, achieving comprehensive evaluation where needed while avoiding unnecessary complexity for unaffected resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9747156B2Management system, plan generation method, plan generation program
Publication Date: 2017.08.29 HITACHI VANTARA LTD
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AI summary

A management system that generates a plan which is a countermeasure against an event occurring in a computer system includes: a plan generating unit configured to generate a plan according to the event; and an indicator generating unit configured to generate, as a performance change evaluation indicator of the plan, information on a change in performance of a resource of the computer system, which can occur due to other subject's process executed by the other subject different from a subject of the plan when the plan generated by the plan generating unit is executed.