Passive monitoring of virtual systems using agent-less, near-real-time indexing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9304885-B2
Application number	US-201313920288-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2013
Priority date	Jun 18, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for passively monitoring a computer system. In an embodiment, a read-only target is created based on the configuration of the virtual server disk used by the virtual server to access the storage associated therewith. This read-only target can be used to expose the virtual server disk for access by a monitoring crawler. Using the read-only target, a monitoring crawler can acquire a set of features regarding the virtual server from the virtual server disk. One or more of this set of features can be analyzed to perform passive monitoring of the virtual server.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for passively monitoring a virtual server, comprising:
creating a read-only target based on a configuration of a virtual server disk associated with a virtual server;
exposing the virtual server disk to be accessed by a monitoring crawler;
wrapping an image file of the virtual server in a linear block device defined by a device mapper table for the virtual server disk,
wherein the exposing includes copying the device mapper table to the read-o…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bala Vasanth
• Isci Canturk
• Lindeman James A
• Mummert Todd W
• Reimer Darrell C

Classifications

• G06F2201/865

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/3003 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/3051

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2201/815

  Physics · mapped topic