Apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system

摘要

An apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system operable for alerting an operator to failures associated with critical resource consumption and comprises: a resource monitoring component for monitoring resource consumption; a threshold setting component for setting a threshold of resource consumption between an average resource consumption value and a critical resource consumption value; a diagnostic data collection component; and a threshold crossing detection component; wherein the diagnostic data collection component is operable, in response to the threshold crossing detection component detecting a threshold crossing, to start or stop diagnostic data collection.

主权项

1. An apparatus for monitoring a computer system operable for alerting an operator to failures associated with critical resource consumption and comprising:
a processor; and storage coupled to said processor, wherein said storage stores software, and wherein said software runs on said processor to perform: monitoring resource consumption; setting a threshold of resource consumption for triggering diagnostic data collection between an average resource consumption value and a critical resource consumption value based on a probability based rule; in response to detecting a threshold crossing from a resource consumption value below said threshold to a resource consumption value above said threshold, starting diagnostic data collection; and in response to detecting a threshold crossing from a resource consumption value above said threshold to a resource consumption value below said threshold, stopping said diagnostic data collection.