Patent ID: 11880271
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A physical data-storage device that stores instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computer system, control the computer system to:
extract call traces from a call-trace database as a call-trace dataset;
generate one or more labels and corresponding label values for the extracted call traces in the call-trace dataset when the extracted call traces in the call-trace dataset are not automatically labeled by a call-trace service and associate a label value for each label with each extracted call trace in the call-trace dataset;
for each label in a set of labels selected from labels associated with the extracted call traces in the call-trace dataset,
generate a call-trace-classification-rule set that partitions the extracted call traces in the call-trace dataset according to possible label values corresponding to the label in the set of labels,
filter the call-trace-classification-rule set, and
add call-trace-classification rules of the filtered call-trace-classification-rule set to a generated set of call-trace-classification rules;

display a portion of the call-trace-classification rules in the generated set of call-trace-classification rules for use in diagnosing an operational problem or failure occurring in the distributed application; and
store the call-trace-classification rules in the generated set of call-trace-classification rules in a logical toolbox for subsequent use in diagnosing operational problems or failures occurring in the distributed application.