US 8,015,282 B2Granted

System and method to synthesize custom metric attributes from a set of metric attributes associated with an application in an application server environment

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsRajendra Inamdar, Franklin Simpson, Sandeep Shrivastava, Michael Cico, Richard P. Mousseau

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Abstract

A system and method for synthesizing custom metric attributes from available attributes. The system includes an application server that exposes available metric attributes of a MBean. A network console displays for selection the metric attributes of the MBean on a navigation tree and a view panel is located on the network management console where the metric attributes are dragged. The console and view panel allow network administrators to review monitoring data collected exposed by the application server. Custom attributes are created by combining attributes made available by the application server and can be combined to synthesize a custom expression that can be made available to other managed servers on the application server.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system to synthesize custom metric attributes from a set of metric attributes associated with an application comprising:

a managed server instance in a domain, wherein the managed server instance includes a simple network management protocol (SNMP) Agent, an application having a sub-agent associated therewith, and a managed bean that exposes a set of metric attributes associated with the application, wherein the sub-agent is registered to the SNMP agent, and wherein the sub-agent receives the set of metric attributes associated with the application from the managed bean:
an administration server in the domain, wherein the administration server includes a SNMP manager that communicates with the SNMP agent on the managed server instance to receive the set of metric attributes;
a network management console having a view panel, wherein the view panel is capable of displaying for selection the set of metric attributes and a plurality of intrinsic attributes, wherein the set of metric attributes are used together with the plurality of intrinsic attributes to build a custom metric attribute, and wherein upon receiving, at the SNMP manager, the set of metric attributes from the SNMP Agent at the managed server instance, the view panel is used to build the custom metric attribute by
selecting one or more of the set of metric attributes and one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes, and
combining the selected one or more of the set of metric attributes with the one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes;
and
wherein the custom metric attribute is then available to one or more other managed server instances in the domain.

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A method to synthesize custom metric attributes from a set of metric attributes associated with an application comprising the steps of:

providing a managed server instance in a domain, wherein the managed server instance includes a simple network management protocol SNMP Agent, an application having a sub-agent associated therewith, and a managed bean that exposes a set of metric attributes associated with the application, wherein the sub-agent receives the set of metric attributes associated with the application from the managed bean, and wherein the SNMP Agent receives the set of metric attributes from the sub-agent;
providing an administration server in the domain, wherein the administration server includes a SNMP manager that communicates with the SNMP Agent on the managed server instance, and a network management console having a view panel, wherein the view panel is capable of displaying for selection the set of metric attributes and a plurality of intrinsic attributes, and wherein the set of metric attributes are used together with the plurality of intrinsic attributes to build a custom metric attribute;
receiving, at the SNMP manager, the set of metric attributes from the SNMP Agent at the managed server instance, wherein the set of metric attributes are communicated from the SNMP manager to the network management console;
selecting one or more of the set of metric attributes and one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes from the view panel;
building the custom metric attribute in the view panel by combining the selected one or more of the set of metric attributes with the one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes;
and
wherein the custom metric attribute is then available to one or more other managed server instances in the domain.

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A computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon for synthesizing custom metric attributes from a set of metric attributes associated with an application, wherein said instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

providing a managed server instance in a domain, wherein the managed server instance includes a simple network management protocol SNMP Agent, an application having a sub-agent associated therewith, and a managed bean that exposes a set of metric attributes associated with the application, wherein the sub-agent receives the set of metric attributes associated with the application from the managed bean, and wherein the SNMP Agent receives the set of metric attributes from the sub-agent;
providing an administration server in the domain, wherein the administration server includes a SNMP manager that communicates with the SNMP Agent on the managed server instance, and a network management console having a view panel, wherein the view panel is capable of displaying for selection the set of metric attributes and a plurality of intrinsic attributes, and wherein the set of metric attributes are used together with the plurality of intrinsic attributes to build a custom metric attribute;
receiving, at the SNMP manager, the set of metric attributes from the SNMP Agent at the managed server instance, wherein the set of metric attributes are communicated from the SNMP manager to the network management console;
selecting one or more of the set of metric attributes and one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes from the view panel;
building the custom metric attribute in the view panel by combining the selected one or more of the set of metric attributes with the one or more of the plurality of intrinsic attributes;
and
wherein the custom metric attribute is then available to one or more other managed server instances in the domain.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/354,735Filed 15 Jan 2009 · us provisional application
Priority: 15 Jan 2008
Published: US 2009/0182880 A116 Jul 2009
Granted: 6 Sep 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04L 41/046
Network management architectures or arrangements: comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
H04L 41/0213
Standardisation; Integration: standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
H04L 63/20
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for managing network security; network security policies in general
H04L
Digital communication