Process and system for real-time monitoring of a data processing system for its administration and maintenance support in the operating phase

A system for real-time monitoring of a data processing system for administration and maintenance support of the data processing system in an operating phase, said data processing system adapted to communicate in a client-server mode through interconnected networks, each client including a browser which supports a high-level hypertext language, comprising;

• intelligent agents in each server for running a check on the status of each server after phrasing of client requests,
• means for measuring and storing information indicating the status and the behavior of the server at a given moment,
• means for automatically collecting said information as a function of domains examined and systematically processing the information by the server,
• means for offering the information in the form of presentation reports contained in dynamically evolving pages while the client's browser accesses said dynamically evolving pages having the information collected and processed in response to a request,
• wherein the systematic processing of the information collected for construction of the dynamic pages by the server is carried out in successive steps, each step corresponding to processing of said information by a particular module, including:
• a page construction module which receives a client's request from a network and prepares the pages by collecting necessary data in appropriate levels depending on the operating system of the page construction module, then presenting said data to a generic tool module for aiding in the construction of the pages, independent of the operating system,
• a semantic knowledge module of the operating system for fetching low-level data in an information construction module and then constructing a high-level semantic representation of the data fetched,
• an information construction module of the operating system which uses commands depending on the operating system to acquire low-level data and provides an application interface for communicating with the semantic knowledge module of the operating system, and
• a generic tool module for aiding in the construction of the pages in high-level hypertext language.

A system for real-time monitoring of a data processing system for administration and maintenance support of the system in an operating phase, and for communicating in a client-server mode through interconnected networks, each client comprising a browser which supports a high-level hypertext language, comprising intelligent agents in each server for phrasing a client request via the intelligent agents in each server, means for running a check on the status of each server, means for measuring and storing parameter information indicating the status and behavior of the server at a given moment, means for automatically collecting the parameter information as a function of domains examined and systematically processed by the server, and means for offering the information in the form of presentation reports contained in dynamically evolving pages, while accessing said dynamic pages having the collected and processed information responding to a request via the client's browser, wherein

• said dynamically evolving pages are constructed by carrying out systematic processing of parameter information by the server in successive steps, each step corresponding to the processing of said information by a particular module, including a page construction module, a semantic knowledge module, an information construction module and a generic tool module,
• the page construction module being configured to receive a client's request from the network and prepare the pages by collecting the necessary data in appropriate levels depending on the construction module's operating system, and then present said data to the generic tool module for aiding in the construction, independent of the operating system,
• the information construction module being configured to fetch low-level data depending on the operating system via the semantic knowledge module of the operating system, construct a high-level semantic representation of the data requested, acquire low level data utilizing commands to the information construction module of the operating system to acquire said low-level data and communicate with the semantic knowledge module of the operating system via an application interface, and
• the generic tool module being configured for aiding in the construction of the pages in high-level hypertext language.