Patent ID: 11860757
Assignee: LAKESIDE SOFTWARE, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for generating an output for facilitating assessment of a performance impact of a change in one or more managed computer systems, comprising:
determining changes associated with at least a first managed computer system of the one or more managed computer systems and storing, in a first data store, change records corresponding to the determined changes wherein each of the change records includes a respective change time-stamp indicating when each change was determined;
determining a plurality of performance values for at least one performance metric associated with the first managed computer system for predetermined times and associating with each of the performance values a respective performance time-stamp;
selecting one of the changes to the first managed computer system for change impact assessment, wherein the selected change has an associated change time-stamp, wherein selecting one of the changes to the first managed computer system for change impact assessment comprises: providing a user interface wherein a plurality of candidate changes are presented for selection by a user; receiving by way of the user interface an input from the user identifying one of the candidate changes to define the selected change;
identifying first performance values from the plurality of performance values that have performance time-stamps that are prior in time to the time-stamp of the selected change and associating the first performance values with a before-change category;
identifying second performance values from the plurality of performance values that have performance time-stamps that are later in time relative to the time-stamp of the selected change and associating the second performance values with an after-change category; and
generating an output comprising the first and second performance values wherein the first performance values associated with the before-change category are distinguished from the second performance values associated with the after-change category, to thereby allow a user to determine the performance impact of the selected change using the output.