MasterScope: Features and Experimental Applications of System Invariant Analysis Technology

NEC’s MasterScope middlewa re is an integrated operation management software suite. MasterScope collects operational and performance metrics from target IT systems and analyzes them comprehensively in order to detect and locate system failures. Detected events and failures will be notified to the operator and workarounds can be applied to recover from failures. There are similarities between such an analysis process for the operation management and that required to process big data. For Instance, the system performance analysis software “MasterScope Invariant Analyzer” automatically discovers important correlations from a large amount of performance data and proactively detects hidden performance anomalies, thereby avoiding serious system level damages. This paper describes the analysis technology of MasterScope which has similarity to the big data analysis technology, and then introduces experimental applications of the system invariant analysis technology in domains other than the operation management.