Data Center Monitoring And Management Operation Including An Extensible Data Forwarding Operation

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• a data bus coupled to the processor;
• a data center asset client module;
• and,
• a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for:
• identifying data forwarder configuration information for a plurality of data forwarders, the forwarder configuration information including scheduling information;
• scheduling collection of data from a data source according to the scheduling information;
• collecting data from a data source based upon the scheduling, the collecting using the forwarder configuration information to identify the data to be collected;
• formatting the data collected from the data source according to the data forwarder configuration information to provide formatted data;
• and,
• forwarding the formatted data to a recipient.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

• identifying data forwarder configuration information for a plurality of data forwarders, the forwarder configuration information including scheduling information;
• scheduling collection of data from a data source according to the scheduling information;
• collecting data from a data source based upon the scheduling, the collecting using the forwarder configuration information to identify the data to be collected;
• formatting the data collected from the data source according to the data forwarder configuration information to provide formatted data;
• and,
• forwarding the formatted data to a recipient.