Patent ID: 7761730
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for determining an impact of a failure of a component for one or more services that the component is supporting, said method comprising: receiving a data feed from a processing node, the data feed comprising data indicative of an identity and system status of a component running on the processing node, wherein the system status of the component identifies whether the component has failed or is active; mapping the one or more services into a calendar function; first determining, by a computer, that the component supports the one or more services, wherein said first determining further comprises performing a lookup in the calendar function to identify a temporal activity and a level of criticality of each service of the one or more services, and wherein the temporal activity identified by the calendar function comprises for each service of the one or more services: minutes of each day of each week of each year that each service should run or must run, and a level of criticality associated with each service with respect to the minutes of each day of each week of each year that each service should run or must run; wherein said first determining has determined that the component supports a first service of the one or more services, wherein the data in the received data feed indicates that the component has the system status of having failed at a first time, wherein said second determining has determined from the identified temporal activity and the identified level of criticality of the first service that the system status of the component having failed at the first time does not affect the first service between the first time and a second time that is later than the first time and that the level of criticality of the first service at the second time is a critical level, and wherein the method further comprises: displaying a first color between the first time and the second time until the second time is approached, said first color being indicative of the first service not being affected by the system status of the component having failed; and displaying a second color differing from the first color when the second time is approached, said second color being indicative of the first service having the level of criticality at the critical level and thus being affected at the critical level by the system status of the component having failed; after said first determining, second determining, by the computer, an impact of the system status of the component on the one or more services from analysis of the identified temporal activity and the identified level of criticality of the one or more services determined from said performing the lookup in the calendar function.