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US 2012/0259960 A1Published application
Dynamic Self-Configuration of Heterogenous Monitoring Agent Networks
AssigneeBMC Software, Inc.
InventorsAbhijit Sharma, Geert De Peuter
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Abstract
A centralized, policy-driven approach allows dynamic self-configuration and self-deployment of large scale, complex, heterogeneous monitoring agent networks. Such an approach resolves the scalability and manageability issues of manually configured conventional agents. Embodiments of the agents can be self-configuring using a dynamic, adaptive technique. An administrator can group hosts on which agents into groups that have similarly configured agents.
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A method of configuring monitoring agents, comprising:
- sending a generic monitoring agent to a first computer from a configuration manager executing on a second computer;
- receiving information about the first computer from the generic monitoring agent;
- generating automatically a customized configuration for the generic monitoring agent responsive to the information about the first computer received from the generic monitoring agent;
- and
- sending the customized configuration to the generic monitoring agent.
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A system comprising:
- a first computer;
- a generic monitoring agent, executable on the first computer;
- a second computer;
- a processor;
- a storage device, coupled to the processor;
- and
- a configuration manager, stored on the storage device and executable on the second computer, configured to:
- receive a first information about the first computer from the generic monitoring agent;
- and
- send a customized configuration for the generic monitoring agent to the generic monitoring agent, responsive to the first information.
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