US 7,627,671 B1 · Monitoring and performance management of component-based applications

Abstract

Invention manages underlying application objects that support implemented business functions. A performance manager accesses and interprets application metadata and execution environment metadata, using a hierarchical entity to model complex relationships between application abstractions, components and resources. The performance manager encodes common behavioral and architecture information in models resulting from analysis of component architecture standards, vendor application servers, development tools and administration tools. The performance manager conducts inter-component dependency and control flow analysis, for example by generating control flow graphs from application metadata and performing byte code analysis without access to application source code. The performance manager collects metrics from standardized and vendor-specific sources, instruments interpreters (such as the Java Virtual Machine), and collects and utilizes resource metrics, code performance metrics, configuration parameters, and transaction, failure and lifecycle events.

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A method for monitoring application performance, comprising:

a software program receiving a set of metadata, from a server in a server cluster, about an application deployed in said server cluster, wherein the set of metadata describes a set of functional abstractions of the application and a set of components of the application, wherein each member of said set of functional abstractions describes an anticipated execution sequence of application logic for the application, wherein each member of said set of components describes a set of executable code providing a coherent set of one or more functions, wherein the software program is executing on a first hardware component, wherein the server is executing on a second hardware component, and wherein the first hardware component is not the second hardware component;
the software program generating a performance model according to said set of metadata, wherein said performance model models relationships between members of said set of functional abstractions and members of said set of components;
the software program determining, using said performance model, a set of performance metrics for use in monitoring and managing performance of said application;
and
the software program receiving a set of performance metric values for said set of performance metrics.

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A machine-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed, cause:

a software program receiving, from a server in a server cluster, a set of metadata about an application deployed in said server cluster, wherein the set of metadata describes a set of functional abstractions of the application and a set of components of the application, wherein each member of said set of functional abstractions describes an anticipated execution sequence of application logic for the application, and wherein each member of said set of components describes a set of executable code providing a coherent set of one or more functions;
the software program generating a performance model according to said set of metadata, wherein said performance model models relationships between members of said set of functional abstractions and members of said set of components;
the software program determining, using said performance model, a set of performance metrics for use in monitoring and managing performance of said application;
and
the software program receiving a set of performance metric values for said set of performance metrics.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Monitoring and performance management of component-based applications

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Abstract

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