US 5,961,596 A · Method of monitoring a computer system, featuring performance data distribution to plural monitoring processes

Abstract

In order to enable monitoring of a computer of a monitoring target, by two or more computers by way of a network, without increasing the load of the computer of monitoring target, the capturing process invoked on each node of the parallel computer captures performance data, the collecting process invoked on a specific node collects these captured performance data, and transmits to the relaying process on the monitoring computer. If there is a display process and a logging process invoked on the same or different monitoring computers, the relaying process distributes the performance data to them. The display process displays the performance data for part of measurement items included in the distributed performance data on the display device. The logging process stores all the distributed performance data in the storage device.

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Dependent claims

In a computer network having a plurality of computers which include a computer system of monitoring target, and a computer connection network for connecting said plurality of computers, a computer system monitoring method comprising the steps of:

receiving, by a relaying process, performance data of said computer system of monitoring target, by way of said computer connection network, each time when said computer system of monitoring target captures performance data thereof repeatedly at different timings, wherein said relaying process is invoked on one of said plurality of computers other than said computer system of monitoring target;
and
transferring said received performance data to each of a plurality of utilizing processes by said relaying process, wherein said plurality of utilizing processes are invoked on a plurality of computers each of which is the same as or different from said one computer on which said relaying process is invoked, among said plurality of computers included in said computer network other than said computer system of monitoring target.

A computer, comprising:

a computer system of monitoring target connected to a computer connection network;
at least one computer connected to said computer connection network;
and
a relaying process invoked on said one computer;
wherein said relaying process is programmed so as to receive performance data of said computer system of monitoring target therefrom, by way of said computer connection network, whenever said performance data of the computer system of monitoring target is captured repeatedly thereby, and transfers said received performance data to each of a plurality of utilizing processes by way of said computer connection network;
and
wherein said plurality of utilizing processes are ones to be invoked on mutually different computers connected to said computer connection network, so as to utilize performance data of said computer system of monitoring target.

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A program storage medium which stores a relaying program which is to be invoked on one of a plurality of computers connected to a computer connection network;

wherein said relaying program is programmed so as to receive performance data from a computer system of monitoring target, each time when said computer system of monitoring target captures performance data thereof repeatedly at a plurality of timings, and transfers said received performance data to each of a plurality of utilizing processes to be invoked on mutually different ones of said plurality of computers, so as to utilize performance data of said computer system of monitoring target.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method of monitoring a computer system, featuring performance data distribution to plural monitoring processes

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Method of monitoring a computer system, featuring performance data distribution to plural monitoring processes

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