Systems and methods for trap monitoring in multi-core and cluster systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016142279-A1
Application number	US-201615006848-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 26, 2016
Priority date	Apr 13, 2012
Publication date	May 19, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

In a multi-core device or clustered system, instead of snmpd polling for configured monitoring values of an entity to determine if reached a threshold, each core in a multi-core system or node in a clustered system triggers information to the snmpd about entities that may be or are generating SNMP traps. A configured threshold T is distributed among the cores or nodes, as the case may be, based on the number of cores or nodes. If there are ‘n’ cores in a multi-core device, and the configured threshold is ‘T’, then each core checks for a per-core threshold value ‘T/n’. If there are ‘n’ nodes in a clustered system, and the configured threshold is ‘T’, then each node checks for a per-node threshold value ‘T/n’. According to the pigeonhole principle, if an entity has reached or exceeded the threshold ‘T’, then the entity must have reached or exceeded a value of ‘T/n’ on at least one core or node. Upon the entity crossing a ‘T/n’ value on any core or node, the core or node informs snmpd about this entity. Snmpd then gathers information about this entity from all the cores and checks for the threshold ‘T’.

First claim

What is claimed:

1 . A system comprising:
a device comprising a plurality of cores configured to monitor an entity via a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); each core of the plurality of cores configured to monitor a value of the entity in comparison to a corresponding portion of a threshold for the value of the entity assigned to each core; a first core configured to determine the value of the entity as monitored by the first core has reached the first core's corresponding portion of the threshold, and responsive to the determination, to communicate an indicator of an SNMP trap condition to one or more other cores of the plurality of cores.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the first core is further configured to obtain the value of the entity from each of the one or more other cores of the plurality of cores.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the first core is further configured to determine whether the value of the entity has reached the threshold using an aggregation of values of the entity obtained from each of the cores of the plurality of cores.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the first core is further configured to confirm the SNMP trap condition by determining that the aggregation of values is at least one of equal to or greater than the threshold.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the device is intermediary to a plurality of clients and one or more servers and wherein the entity represents a metric of one or more of the plurality of servers.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the device is further configured to assign to each core as the corresponding portion of the threshold a value of the threshold divided by a number of cores of the plurality of cores.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the second core is further configured to determine that the value of the entity monitored by the second core has reached the second core's corresponding portion of the threshold.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the second core is further configured to communicate to the first core a second indicator of the SNMP trap condition.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the device is further configured to execute an SNMP agent on each core of the plurality of cores, the SNMP agent configured to monitor the value of the entity via polling an SNMP database.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the device is further configured to execute the SNMP agent as a master SNMP agent on the first core, wherein each SNMP agent on other cores of the plurality of cores is further configured to obtain from the master SNMP agent the monitored value of the entity as monitored by each respective core.

11 . A system comprising:
a plurality of devices configured to monitor an entity via a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); each device of the plurality of devices is configured to monitor a value of the entity in comparison to a corresponding portion of a threshold for the value of the entity assigned to each device; a first device configured to determine the value of the entity as monitored by the first device has reached the first device's corresponding portion of the threshold, and responsive to the determination, to communicate an indicator of an SNMP trap condition to one or more other devices of the plurality of devices.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the first device is further configured to obtain the value of the entity from each of the one or more other devices of the plurality of devices.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the first device is further configured to determine whether the value of the entity has reached the threshold using an aggregation of values of the entity obtained from each of the devices of the plurality of devices.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the first device is further configured to confirm the SNMP trap condition by determining that the aggregation of values is at least one of equal to or greater than the threshold.

15 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of devices are intermediary to a plurality of clients and one or more servers, wherein the value of the entity represents a metric of the one or more servers.

16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein each device is assigned the corresponding portion of the threshold comprising a value of the threshold divided by a number of devices in the plurality of devices.

17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein a second device of the plurality of devices is configured to determine that the value of the entity monitored by the second device has reached the second device's corresponding portion of the threshold.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the second device is further configured to communicate to the first device a second indicator of the SNMP trap condition.

19 . The system of claim 11 , wherein each device is configured to execute an SNMP agent configured to monitor the value of the entity via polling an SNMP database.

20 . The system of claim 19 , wherein the first device is further configured to execute the SNMP agent as a master SNMP agent, wherein each SNMP agent on other devices of the plurality of devices is further configured to obtain from the master SNMP agent the monitored value of the entity as monitored by each respective device.

Assignees

• Citrix Systems Inc

Inventors

• Gedam Dhiraj
• Holla Raveendra
• Mithyantha Sharvari

Classifications

• H04L43/10

  Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route · CPC title

• H04L43/16 Primary

  Threshold monitoring · CPC title

• H04L41/0609

  based on severity or priority · CPC title

• H04L41/0681

  Configuration of triggering conditions · CPC title

• H04L41/0213

  Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP] · CPC title