Apparatus and method for suppressing a delay in monitoring communication
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsToshiro Ariga, Naohiro Tamura
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Abstract
A management apparatus acquires state information indicating a state of a monitoring target by communicating with the monitoring target through a first monitoring path at a monitoring timing for monitoring the monitoring target, and detects a use state of the first monitoring path. Upon determining, based on the use state, that a delay is expected to occur in at a next monitoring timing, the management apparatus changes the first monitoring path to a second monitoring path different from the first monitoring path, and communicates with the monitoring target through the changed second monitoring path.
Claims17
A management apparatus comprising:
- a network interface card configured to perform a first communication with a host server to be monitored, through a first monitoring path in a communication network, the host server including a first processor;
- a memory;
- and
- a second processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire state information indicating a state of the host server by communicating with the host server via the network interface card at a monitoring timing for monitoring the host server, wherein
- the second processor detects a use state of the first monitoring path;
- the second processor makes, based on the use state, a determination whether a delay is expected to occur at a next monitoring timing by anticipating the use state of the first monitoring path at the next monitoring timing;
- and
- upon determining that the delay is expected to occur in the first communication at the next monitoring timing, the second processor changes the first monitoring path to a second monitoring path different from the first monitoring path, and communicates with the host server via the network interface card through the changed second monitoring path.
An information processing system comprising:
- a host server including a first processor configured to execute an information process;
- and
- a management apparatus including a memory and a second processor coupled to the memory, the second processor being configured to acquire state information indicating a state of the host server, by communicating with the host server via a first monitoring path at a monitoring timing for monitoring the monitoring target, wherein
- the second processor of the management apparatus detects a use state of the first monitoring path;
- the second processor of the management apparatus makes, based on the use state, a determination whether a delay is expected to occur at a next monitoring timing by anticipating the use state of the first monitoring path at the next monitoring timing;
- and
- upon determining, based on the use state, that the delay is expected to occur in the first communication at the next monitoring timing, the second processor of the management apparatus changes the first monitoring path to a second monitoring path different from the first monitoring path, and communicates with the host server through the changed second monitoring path.
A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
- acquiring state information indicating a state of a monitoring target by performing a communication with the monitoring target through a first monitoring path in a communication network at a monitoring timing for monitoring the monitoring target;
- detecting a use state of the first monitoring path;
- making, based on the use state, a determination whether a delay is expected to occur in the communication at a next monitoring timing by anticipating the use state of the first monitoring path at the next monitoring timing;
- upon determining that the delay is expected to occur in the communication at the next monitoring timing, changing the first monitoring path to a second path different from the first path;
- and
- communicating with the monitoring target through the changed second monitoring path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.