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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
Stefano Borghetti, Rome, IT;
Leonida Gianfagna, Rome, IT;
Antonio Mario Sgro, Girifalco, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for monitoring power consumption of software applications. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a new feature is inserted in a system availability monitoring product which estimates the power consumption of the system, starting from the measurement of some parameters collected by a monitoring tool. All systems are impacted by energy consumption, by the usage of its resources (hard-disk, CPU, memory, CDROM, etc.); when the usage of these components increases, the energy consumption increases too. The usage of the resources can be calculated through the monitoring tool according to some specific parameters. The calculated metrics of the usage are based on the measurement of the time during which a resource is in a predetermined status. Each resource has an associated table for determining the expected power consumption according to the status.