Monitoring service in a distributed platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9507684-B2
Application number	US-201213608400-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2012
Priority date	May 20, 2011
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

Techniques for enabling monitoring across one or more domains are provided. The techniques include identifying information technology resources across one or more domains, collecting information technology dependency information relating to the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, collecting monitoring data from the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, and using the dependency information to aggregate the monitoring data into one or more pre-determined metrics.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for enabling monitoring across one or more domains, wherein the method comprises:
identifying information technology resources across multiple cloud environment domains, wherein said information technology resources correspond to a client service distributed across the multiple cloud environment domains, and wherein each respective one of the multiple cloud environment domains is controlled autonomously by a respective domain owner;
collecting heterogeneous monitoring data from the information technology resources identified across each respective one of the multiple cloud environment domains, wherein said heterogeneous monitoring data comprises at least (i) a count of all replicated information technology resources in a cluster among the identified information technology resources, (ii) an identification of a type of product providing a given functionality among the identified information technology resources, and (iii) dependency information among the identified information technology resources;
combining the heterogeneous monitoring data from the information technology resources corresponding to the client service distributed across the multiple cloud environment domains based on one or more items of the dependency information according to (i) one or more monitoring requirements of the client, and (ii) multiple data processing rules comprising (a) one or more data aggregation rules, (b) one or more data segregation rules, and (c) one or more data alignment adjustment rules to generate a unified set of monitoring data, wherein said combining comprises transforming each respective item of the heterogeneous monitoring data to a predetermined form; and
outputting the unified set of monitoring data to the client via a client delivery portal, wherein said client delivery portal comprises (i) a business dashboard, (ii) an Information Technology dashboard, (iii) a historical reports viewer, (iv) an event viewer, (v) a notification viewer, and (vi) a recommendation viewer.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein information technology resources across the multiple cloud environment domains comprise at least one of a private cloud, a public cloud, a third-party hosted domain and a static local domain.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein combining the heterogeneous monitoring data comprises combining the heterogeneous monitoring data into one or more metrics corresponding to the one or more monitoring requirements of the client.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein combining the heterogeneous monitoring data comprises identifying an application dependency graph that comprises multiple run-time components of the client service and combining component-wise monitoring data in accordance with the application dependency graph.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein combining the heterogeneous monitoring data comprises performing one or more measurements on one or more unmeasured components.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising using the monitoring data to facilitate unified remote information technology management.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising dynamically updating the collection and combining steps.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising collecting information pertaining to how to capture heterogeneous monitoring data.

Assignees

• Breiter Gerd
• Sahu Sambit
• Sailer Anca
• Shaikh Hidayatullah
• Viswanathan Mahesh
• IBM

Inventors

• Breiter Gerd
• Sahu Sambit
• Sailer Anca
• Shaikh Hidayatullah
• Viswanathan Mahesh

Classifications

• G06F11/3006 Primary

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

• G06F11/0709

  in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems · CPC title

• G06F11/3055 Primary

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available (error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16) · CPC title

• G06F11/3051

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs (verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247) · CPC title

• G06F11/328

  Computer systems status display (G06F11/327 takes precedence) · CPC title