Digital Equipment Corporation

Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.p.

Jeffrey R Harrow

G Paul Koning

Mark W Sylor

Richard L Rosenbaum

Mark J Seger

Colin Strutt

Leonard G Fehskens

Kenneth W Chapman

Robert C Schuchard

Sheryl F Namoglu

Stanley I Goldfarb

Linsey B O'Brien

Benjamin M England

Matthew J Guertin

David L Aronson

Jill F Callander

Danny L Smith

Timothy M Dixon

Dennis O Rogers

Philip John Trasatti

Ruth E Kohls

Steven K Wong

Arundahati G Sankar

Robert R Ross

Kathy J Nelson

Allan B Moore

James L Lemmon, Jr

Peter H Burgess

Christine C Chan-Lizardo

William C Adams, Jr

Fred P Messinger

Anil V Navkal

Gerard R Plouffe

Ruth E J Kohls

Robert R N Ross

Kathy Jo Nelson

A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands and a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed. In addition, the system includes storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a command to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules.

Entity management system

A system monitoring device has the capacity of displaying historical or real time information and also allows a user to set, via direct manipulation, a range of values in relation to other currently displayed information in graphical format on a computer screen and to view such relationships in an intuitive manner. A user interface is provided so a user can interact with information being viewed via an input device, e.g., a pointing device. The user interface of the system monitoring device of the present invention includes two interactive icons allowing a user to select and display information contained in a historical record, or log, of information, as well as real time information, and also to expand the interactive icon into a range of values, specifying a minimum and maximum, so that there is a range between the point at which the activity may take place and the point at which the activity is canceled which a user can directly manipulate in an intuitive manner on a display device. One of the interactive icons may be displayed as a film editor metaphor with a magnifying glass and two spools.

Method and device for monitoring, manipulating, and viewing system

A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands, a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed, and an enroller for enrolling new modules into the system by adding further pointers to the table. In addition, the system includes: a module adapted to independently interpret and execute selected management-related commands; stored records relating to accessed management information, each record indicating an associated time; an information manager, responsive to commands having a time schedule, for retrieving information from the records or accessing information from the entities, including a scheduler for issuing subsidiary accesses or retrievals at possibly multiple times according to the schedule; storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a commands to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules; a common command syntax including fields for identifying the entity and the operation to be performed; a module that stores rules identifying alarm conditions, including a generator for generating rules and an alarm detector for detecting an alarm condition in response to the rules; a module adapted to carry out self-management functions by interpreting and executing commands.

Extensible entity management system including a dispatching kernel and

Extensible entity management system including rule-based alarms

A system monitoring device is disclosed which is capable of displaying historical or real time information and also allows a user to set, via direct manipulation, a range of values in relation to other currently displayed information in graphical format on a computer screen and to view such relationships in an intuitive manner. A user interface is provided whereby a user can interact with information being viewed via an input device, e.g., a pointing device. The user interface of the system monitoring device of the present invention includes two interactive icons which allow a user to select and display information contained in a historical record, or log, of information, as well as real time information, and also to expand the interactive icon into a range of values so that there is a range, or hysteresis, between the point at which the activity may take place and the point at which the activity is canceled which a user can directly manipulate in an intuitive manner on a display device.

System monitoring method and device including a graphical user interface

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Amherst, NH, United States of America

Jeffrey R Harrow