US 7,587,478 B2
Method and computer program product for measuring quality of network services
Daisuke Iizuka, Yokohama (Japan); and Naoki Utsunomiya, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 01, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/931,086.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-197587 (JP), filed on Jul. 05, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0036724 A1, Feb. 16, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—223  [709/224; 709/228; 709/244; 709/245; 370/395.21] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-readable storage medium including a program readable by a management computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the management computer to perform method steps for measuring a quality of services provided by a server computer to a plurality of computers on a network, in a system which includes the server computer for providing the services to the plurality of computers connected to the server computer via the network, and the management computer connected to the plurality of computers via the network, said method comprising:
a process of acquiring configuration management information including district information of each of said plurality of computers;
a process of setting a search condition of measuring the quality of services including said district information, wherein said process of setting said search condition includes a process of setting a district in which the computers selectable by the management computer are located and the quality of services for the computers is measured;
a process of searching the acquired configuration management information and selecting the configuration management information matching said measuring search condition;
a process of installing a preset quality measuring program in the computers corresponding to said selected configuration information;
a process of making said selected computers execute said quality measuring program; and
a process of collecting an execution result of said quality measuring program.