Patent ID: 9507686
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of displaying health information of a system asset from among a plurality of system assets of a networked storage system used for storing and retrieving data on behalf of clients, the method comprising: accessing stored communication protocol information for communicating with the plurality of system assets of the networked storage system, where at least two different communication protocols are used to communicate with at least two different system assets of the networked storage system; collecting performance related data of the plurality of systems assets, where the performance related data includes latency in processing read and write requests, number of input/output operations (IOPS) for writing and reading stored data, amount of data transferred and memory usage; collecting configuration related data of the plurality of systems assets, where the configuration related data includes capacity of storage volumes of the networked storage systems, speed of network ports used within the networked storage system, an amount of memory allocated for systems asset and a CPU count; storing the performance related data and the configuration related data associated with the system asset in a data log; accessing the data log associated with the system asset, wherein the data log includes a store of the health information of the system asset for tracking configuration status based on collected configuration related data and performance status based on collected performance related data of the system asset; identifying a plurality of state entries in the store of the health information, each of the state entries including a timestamp and a state of the system asset at the respective time stamp; generating a summary segment indicating that configuration related data and performance related data for the system asset has been collected and an indicator of a recent status of configuration and performance of the system asset; generating a first timeline based on the state entries for providing a visual representation of performance of the system asset; generating a second timeline based on the state entries for providing a visual representation of configuration status for the system asset over time indicating when applicable, that the system asset had no configuration errors, had configuration errors and configuration related data collection was suspended; wherein the first and the second timeline having a plurality of chronological portions defined by the timestamps, and wherein each portion of the first and the second timeline is assigned a visual cue based on a state associated with its respective state entries; and visually rendering the first timeline and the second time line upon a computer display.