# US 7,610,266 B2 · Method for vertical integrated performance and environment monitoring

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- Number: US 7,610,266 B2
- Document ID: US7610266B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/137,293
- Filed: 2005-05-25
- Published: 2006-11-30
- Granted: 2009-10-27
- Earliest claimed: 2005-05-25
- Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation
- Inventors: Gheorghe C. Cascaval; Evelyn Duesterwald; Peter F. Sweeney; Robert W. Wisniewski
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7610266B2

## CPC

- G06F 11/3466: {Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring}
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A method for vertical integrated performance and environment monitoring includes steps, or acts, of: defining one or more events to provide a unified specification; registering one or more events to be detected; detecting an occurrence of at least one of the registered event or events; generating a monitoring entry each time one of the registered events is detected; and entering each of the monitoring entries generated into a single logical entity.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A monitoring method for monitoring a computer system, the monitoring method comprising steps of:
defining one or more events to provide a unified specification, at runtime;
registering at least one of the one or more events to be detected, wherein the event is selected from a group consisting of logging the events to a single logical entity, gathering statistics of the events to the single logical entity, and handling of the events in a customized manner;
creating a consumer of the at least one of the one or more events registered using the unified specification;
gathering statistics of the one or more events registered, the statistics selected from a group consisting of a count, a maximum, a minimum, an average, a median, a standard deviation, and a variance;
handling the one or more events registered in a customized way by allowing the definition of a callback routine to be invoked when the one or more events occurs;
registering an entry specifying events to occur only within a specific context, wherein the context is selected from the group consisting of a partition, an operating system, a process, and a thread;
detecting an occurrence of at least one of the one or more events registered; generating a monitoring entry each time at least one of the one or more events is detected;
determining the performance of the system; monitoring the performance of the system;
dynamically enabling and disabling the step of generating monitoring entries based on the performance determination;
dynamically enabling and disabling the step of detecting of an occurrence based on the performance determination;
determining security violations;
specifying the events registered to occur at intervals, specific frequencies, or based on triggers;
deregistering the event registered; and
entering each monitoring entry generated into a single logical entity.