Method and system for resource management in a computing environment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMatthew E. Duggan, Daniel J. Martin, Erik McCallum
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Abstract
A method and system for monitoring resources in a network of resources in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves discovering resources in the network; constructing a topology model including event information for each discovered resource; providing queries for polling the models for event information, such that the resources need not be polled; executing one or more queries against one or more models; evaluating the query results to ascertain whether or not an event has affected what is considered to be normal for the result of each query; and presenting the evaluation results to enable monitoring of the resources.
Claims1
A method of monitoring resources in a network of resources in a computing environment, comprising:
- constructing a topology model including event information for each resource in the network;
- storing user-defined queries for polling one or more of the topology models for event information wherein the resources need not be polled, and wherein each user-defined query includes a normal result set for the user-defined query;
- polling by executing one or more of the user-defined queries against one or more of the topology models to obtain corresponding polling query results;
- employing a processor to evaluate each polling query result in relation to the normal result set for the corresponding user-defined query to ascertain whether an event has resulted in a deviation from the normal result set;
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- presenting the evaluation results to a user to enable monitoring of the resources.
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