Near real-time messaging service for data center infrastructure monitoring data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018359201-A1
Application number	US-201816004052-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 8, 2018
Priority date	Jun 9, 2017
Publication date	Dec 13, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; storing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform; monitoring, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center to obtain an event that describes one of the event subjects; and publishing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the event to the topic.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
receiving, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; storing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform; monitoring, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center to obtain an event that describes one of the event subjects; and publishing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the event to the topic.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the event describes one of the event subjects; and mapping, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the one of the event subjects to the topic based on the mappings, wherein the publishing comprises: publishing the event to the topic in response to the mapping.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system in response to receiving the registration request, a request for a new topic to the cloud-based publication platform; and receiving, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system from the cloud-based publication platform, a subscription identifier usable for creating a subscription to the topic.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the registration request indicates an application programming interface consumer, the method further comprising:
sending, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system in response to the registration request, the subscription identifier to the application programming interface consumer.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the registration request indicates an application programming interface consumer, the method further comprising:
authorizing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the application programming interface consumer to receive events for the one or more event subjects, wherein the publishing comprises publishing the real-time event to the topic only if the application programming interface consumer is authorized to receive events for the one or more event subjects.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein one of the event subjects comprises one of an alarm object, an alert object, a tagpoint of an infrastructure asset, an infrastructure asset that requires electrical power, and an environmental sensor.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the event is one of an alarm active notification, an alarm cleared notification, an alert active notification, an alert acknowledgement, a new tagpoint data value for a tagpoint of an infrastructure asset, a new power consumption datapoint, a new environmental sensor datapoint, and new resiliency information.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the registration request specifies each event subject of the one or more event subjects using an event identifier that uniquely identifies the event subject.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to the topic comprise respective mappings that map the respective event identifiers for the event subject to the topic.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the data-topic map comprises a hash map and wherein the respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to the topic comprise respective mappings that map respective hashes of respective event identifiers for the event subject to the topic.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by a data streaming platform of the data center infrastructure monitoring system comprises a real-time data streaming, the event that describes one of the event subjects from real-time data produced by one of the physical infrastructure assets.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving, by a real-time stream processor of the data center infrastructure monitoring system, the event from the data streaming platform, wherein the publishing comprises publishing, by the real-time stream processor, the event to the topic in near real-time.

13 . The method of claim 11 ,
wherein the cloud-based publication platform comprises one of a publication-subscription platform and a server-side event platform, and wherein the topic comprises a named resource to which messages can be sent and to which a consuming application may register or subscribe to receive the messages.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the publishing comprises sending, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system to the cloud-based publication platform, a message that indicates the topic and includes event data for the event.

15 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical infrastructure assets comprise one or more of a temperature sensor, a heating ventilation and air conditioning unit, a computer room air conditioning unit, an uninterruptible power supply, a generator, a power distribution unit, an air handling unit, a chiller unit, a power unit, or switchgear.

16 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting, by an edge system, a presence of a physical infrastructure asset of the one or more physical infrastructure assets; selecting, by the edge system, a communication protocol for receiving data associated with the detected physical infrastructure asset; and receiving, by the edge system, the data using the selected communication protocol; sending, by the edge system, the data to the data center infrastructure monitoring system.

17 . A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more processors of a data center infrastructure monitoring system to:
receive a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; store, to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform; monitor a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center to obtain an event that describes one of the event subjects; and publish the event to the topic.

18 . A computing system, the computing system comprising one or more processors and memory, the one or more processors and memory configured for:
receiving a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; storing, to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform; monitoring a plurality of physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within the data center to obtain an event that describes one of the event subjects; and publishing the event to the topic.

Assignees

• Equinix Inc

Inventors

• Rangasamy Venkatachalam
• Jeyapaul Jaganathan
• Doraiswamy Vijaay
• Lillie Brian J
• Kamath Ashwin
• Yedluri Srinivasa Rao
• Purohit Purvish
• Kumar Divesh

Classifications

• G06F11/3072

  where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting · CPC title

• G06F11/3058

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations (thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206) · CPC title

• G06F2201/86

  Event-based monitoring · CPC title

• G06F11/3006

  where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems (multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50) · CPC title

• G06F11/0766

  Error or fault reporting or storing · CPC title