Selectively deploying probes at different resource levels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016294665-A1
Application number	US-201514934944-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 6, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods may include deploying a first probe within a unified infrastructure management (UIM) system to monitor a system-level resource. The systems and methods may include determining that a monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed a threshold value. The systems and methods may include deploying a second probe within the UIM system to monitor a process-level resource in response to determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value. The systems and methods may include storing information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe in a memory.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
deploying a first probe within a unified infrastructure management (UM) system to monitor a system-level resource; determining that a monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed a threshold value; in response to determining that the monitored value fir the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, deploying a second probe within the UIM system to monitor a process-level resource; and storing information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe in a memory.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, generating an alert indicating that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, the alert tagged with a link to the information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing the information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe in a user interface, the user interface presenting the information about the process-level resource graphically.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein deploying the second probe within the UIM system to monitor the process-level resources comprises:
determining whether the second probe is already deployed within the UIM system in a first configuration to monitor a particular resource; and in response to determining that the second probe is already deployed within the UIM system in the first configuration:
storing information specifying the first configuration of the second probe in the memory;
reconfiguring the second probe in a second configuration to monitor the process-level resource; and
controlling the second probe in the second configuration to obtain the information about the process-level resource.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value in an opposite direction; and in response to determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value in the opposite direction:
accessing the information specifying the first configuration of the second probe in the memory;
reconfiguring the second probe in the second configuration to monitor the particular resource; and
controlling the second probe in the first configuration to monitor the particular resource.

6 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the system-level resource is total processor utilization for a particular device within the UIM system, and wherein the process-level resource is a processor utilization for a particular process running on the particular device.

7 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the system-level resource is a total memory utilization for a particular device within the UIM system, and wherein the process-level resource is a memory utilization for a particular process running on the particular device.

8 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein deploying the second probe within the UIM system comprises:
activating the second probe; and
collecting information about a plurality of process-level resources including the information about the process-level resource,
wherein the method further comprises:
providing the information about the plurality of process-level resources in a user interface, the user interface providing access to the information about the plurality of process-level resources with central visualization.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
providing an option in the user interface to select a particular one of the plurality of process-level resources; and providing detailed information about the particular one of the plurality of process-level resources in response to receiving a selection of the particular one of the plurality of process-level resources.

10 . The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the first probe is deployed from a particular hub, and wherein the second probe is also deployed from the particular hub.

11 . A system comprising:
a processing system configured to:
deploy a first probe within a unified infrastructure management (UIM) system to monitor a system-level resource;
determine that a monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed a threshold value;
in response to determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, deploy a second probe within the UIM system to monitor a process-level resource; and
store information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe in a memory.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
in response to determining that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, generate an alert indicating that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value, the alert tagged with a link to the information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe.

13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
provide the information about the process-level resource obtained by the second probe in a user interface, the user interface presenting the information about the process-level resource graphically.

14 . The system of claim 11 , wherein, when deploying the second probe within the UIM system to monitor the process-level resources, the processing system is configured to:
determine whether the second probe is already deployed within the UIM system in a first configuration to monitor a particular resource; and in response to determining that the second probe is already deployed within the UIM system in the first configuration:
store information specifying the first configuration of the second probe in the memory;
reconfigure the second probe in a second configuration to monitor the process-level resource; and
control the second probe in the second configuration to obtain the information about the process-level resource.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
determine that the monitored value for the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value in an opposite direction; and in response to determining that the monitored value fir the system-level resource has crossed the threshold value in the opposite direction:
access the information specifying the first configuration of the second probe in the memory;
reconfigure the second probe in the second configuration to monitor the particular resource; and
control the second probe in the first configuration to monitor the particular resource.

16 . The system of claim 11 ,
wherein the system-level resource is total processor utilization for a particular device within the UIM system, and wherein the process-level resource is a processor utilization for a particular process running on the particular device.

17 . The system of claim 11 ,
wherein the system-level resource is a total memory utilization for a particular device within the UIM system, and wherein the process-level resource is a memory utilization for a particular process running on the particular device.

18 . The system of claim 11 ,
wherein, when deploying the second probe within the UIM system, the processing system is configured to:
activate the second probe; and
collect information about a plurality of process-level

Assignees

• Fowler Martin Carl
• Ca Inc

Inventors

• Fowler Martin Carl

Classifications

• H04L43/12 Primary

  Network monitoring probes · CPC title

• H04L43/16

  Threshold monitoring · CPC title

• H04L43/0817

  by checking functioning · CPC title