US 9,792,144 B2Granted

Methods and apparatus to manage monitoring agents

AssigneeVMware, Inc.

InventorsLital Hassine, Scott Feldstein, Moran Shimron

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Abstract

Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines. A disclosed example involves: (a) automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; (b) automatically determining whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; (c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; (d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically installing the monitoring agent on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; and (e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configuring the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines, the method comprising:

(a) automatically scanning, by executing a computer readable instruction with a processor, the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines;
(b) automatically determining, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule;
(c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed;
(d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on at least one of the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically installing, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, the monitoring agent on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed;
and
(e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configuring the monitoring agent, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.

3 more elements

A system to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines, the system, comprising:

a service analyzer to repeatedly, without human intervention:
automatically scan the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines;
automatically determine whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule;
when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determine whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed;
and
an agent installer to:
when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically install the monitoring agent on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed;
and
when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configure the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed.

6 more elements

A tangible computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to by at least:

(a) automatically scan one or more of a plurality of virtual machines in a dynamic deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines;
(b) automatically determine whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule;
(c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determine whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed;
(d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on at least one of the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically install the monitoring agent on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed;
and
(e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configure the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/186,978Filed 20 Jun 2016 · continuation
Priority: 30 Jun 2014
Published: US 2016/0321098 A13 Nov 2016
Granted: 17 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 8/61
Software deployment: installation
G06F 9/50
Multiprogramming arrangements: allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
G06F 11/30
Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring: monitoring