Patent ID: 9235491
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for system diagnosis, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, incoming traffic for a system defining a plurality of workflow paths; selecting, by the computer system, a first portion of the incoming traffic and directing the first portion of the incoming traffic to an overload path of the plurality of workflow paths; directing, by the computer system, a remaining portion of the incoming traffic to remaining workflow paths of the plurality of workflow paths according to a load balancing scheme, the first portion of the incoming traffic being of an amount effective to load the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths to a greater extent than loading of each of the remaining workflow paths of the plurality of workflow paths according to the load balancing scheme and effective to cause overloading of the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths and such that an amount of overloading increases until the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths fails; processing, by the computer system, the first portion of the incoming traffic in the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths; processing, by the computer system, the remaining portion of the incoming traffic in the remaining workflow paths of the plurality of workflow paths; monitoring, by the computer system, the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths, by monitoring: detecting, by the computer system, operation at or above a predefined level of the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths based at least in part on the monitoring of the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths; and reporting, by the computer system, data reflecting the operation at or above the predefined level of the overload path of the plurality of workflow paths.