US 2022/0045968 A1 · NONINTRUSIVE DYNAMICALLY-SCALABLE NETWORK LOAD GENERATION

Abstract

A method for nonintrusive network load generation may include determining available resources in a distributed computing system, where the distributed computing system includes a plurality of computing devices and a target deployment. Based on an amount of available resources between the target deployment and a plurality of source computing devices, the plurality of source computing devices may be selected to generate a network load directed from the plurality of source computing devices to the target deployment. The plurality of source computing devices may be a subset of the plurality of computing devices in the distributed computing system. A network-traffic generator service may be provided to the plurality of source computing devices in order to generate the network load directed from the plurality of source computing devices to the target deployment. The performance of the distributed computing system in response to the generated network load may be monitored.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented, the method comprising:

communicating, via a processing interface of a service application associated with a validation server, a request to terminate a first network load in a distributed computing system,
wherein a target deployment of the distributed computing system receives the first network load from a source computing device, wherein the first network load is generated using a network-traffic generator service,
wherein the source computing device is comprised in a set of source computing devices of the distributed computing system,
wherein the set of source computing devices are spare resources that satisfy a predetermined capacity threshold for the target deployment,
wherein the predetermined capacity threshold is a threshold based on network bandwidth capacity and compute capacity associated with the spare resources;
and
triggering one or more cleanup actions for the distributed computing system.

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A computerized system comprising:

one or more computer processors;
and
computer memory storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
communicating, via a processing interface of a service application associated with a validation server, a request to monitor a plurality of metrics associated with a distributed computing system,
wherein a target deployment of the distributed computing system receives a first network load from a source computing device, wherein the first network load is generated using a network-traffic generator service,
wherein the source computing device is comprised in a set of source computing devices of the distributed computing system,
wherein the set of source computing devices are spare resources that satisfy a predetermined capacity threshold for the target deployment,
wherein the predetermined capacity threshold is a threshold based on network bandwidth capacity and compute capacity associated with the spare resources;
and
receiving the plurality of metrics.

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One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing system having a processor and memory, cause the processor to:

communicate, via a processing interface of a service application associated with a validation server, a request to verify settings associated with a distributed computing system, wherein based on verifying the settings associated with the distributed computing system, a source computing device is selected from a set of computing devices of the distributed computing system to generate a first network load,
wherein a target deployment of the distributed computing system is configured to receive the first network load from the source computing device, wherein the first network load is generated using a network-traffic generator service,
wherein the set of source computing devices are spare resources that satisfy a predetermined capacity threshold for the target deployment,
wherein the predetermined capacity threshold is a threshold based on network bandwidth capacity and compute capacity associated with the spare resources;
and
cause display, via a dashboard, information associated with the source computing device and the first network load.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Nonintrusive dynamically-scalable network load generation

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