US 10,761,870 B2 · Methods and apparatus to manage monitoring agents

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines. A disclosed example involves: (a) automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; (b) automatically determining whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; (c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; (d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically installing the monitoring agent on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; and (e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configuring the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.

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Dependent claims

A method to manage a dynamic deployment environment including virtual machines, the method comprising:

detecting, by a processor, installation of a service on a virtual machine;
determining, by the processor, that one or more properties of the service match criteria provided by a service monitoring rule, wherein the criteria define conditions that cause an installation of a monitoring agent to monitor the service;
and
based on the one or more properties of the service matching the criteria defined by the service monitoring rule, installing, by an installing agent, the monitoring agent;
and
automatically configuring, by the installing agent, the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed.

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A system to manage a dynamic deployment environment including virtual machines, the system, comprising:

a service analyzer, executed by one or more processors, the service analyzer configured to:
detect installation of a service on a virtual machine;
and
determine that one or more properties of the service match criteria provided by a service monitoring rule, wherein the criteria define conditions that cause an installation of a monitoring agent to monitor the service;
and
an agent installer, executed by the one or more processors, configured to:
based on the one or more properties of the service matching the criteria defined by the service monitoring rule, installing the monitoring agent;
and
automatically configure the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices having computer-executable instructions for managing a dynamic deployment environment including virtual machines, the computer-executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

detecting installation of a service on a virtual machine;
determining that one or more properties of the service match criteria provided by a service monitoring rule, wherein the criteria define conditions that cause an installation of a monitoring agent to monitor the service;
based on the one or more properties of the service matching the criteria provided by the service monitoring rule, installing the monitoring agent;
and
automatically configuring the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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