Enterprise management system and method which includes semantically correct summarization

摘要

A system and method for summarizing metric data in a semantically correct way. The system preferably comprises a distributed computing environment, i.e., an enterprise, which comprises a plurality of interconnected computer systems. At least one of the computer systems is an agent computer system which collects raw data relating to one or more metrics, i.e., measurements of system resources on the agent computer system. A Universal Data Repository (UEDR) receives a set of data points representing metric data from one or more agent computer systems. The UDR summarizes the set of data points into a more compact yet meaningful form. In summarization, the UDR determines a data type of the set of data points, applies a summarization rule according to the data type, and then creates a summarized data structure which corresponds to the set of data points. The summarization rule varies according to the semantics of the data type. The UDR can summarize both raw data and data that has previously been summarized one or more times. So that the record of a particular process is never totally lost, process state changes are preserved throughout.