Trigger support for a bi-directional broker

• US 20050010923A1
• Filed: 07/12/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Minchenko, Nick, Davis, Bradford C.
• Granted Patent: US 7,757,235 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/546 Xcast
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A trigger support system and method for a bi-directional job broker is provided. One or more action requests, or triggers, are registered, for example, by a manager job scheduler or a broker. The one or more action requests are associated with one or more jobs scheduled to run on a client job scheduler. A broker communicates the one or more action requests to the client job scheduler. The client job scheduler takes an action based on the one or more action requests and reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler.

Claims

1. A trigger support system for a bi-directional job broker, comprising:

a manager job scheduler operable to register one or more action requests, the one or more action requests associated with one or more jobs scheduled on a client job scheduler;

a broker enabled to receive the one or more action requests registered by the manager job scheduler;

a client job scheduler operable to receive the one or more action requests from the broker, the client job scheduler further operable to take an action based on the one or more action requests and report result of the action.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the client job scheduler reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler via the broker.

4. A trigger support system for a bi-directional job broker, comprising:

a manager job scheduler;

a broker operable to interrogate the manager job scheduler to register one or more action requests, the one or more action requests associated with one or more jobs scheduled on a client job scheduler; and

a client job scheduler operable to receive the one or more action requests from the broker, the client job scheduler further operable to take an action based on the one or more action requests and report result of the action.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the client job scheduler reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler via the broker.

7. A trigger support method for a bi-directional job broker, comprising:

registering one or more action requests;

transmitting the one or more registered action requests to a client job scheduler;

converting the one or more registered action requests into one or more events in the client job scheduler, the one or more events associated with a job scheduled on the client job scheduler; and

sending one or more messages associated with the one or more events as a result of the job being run.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a broker registers the one or more action requests;

9. The method of claim 7, wherein a manager job scheduler registers the one or more action requests.

10. The method of claim 7, further including converting the message into a manager job scheduler format.

11. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a trigger support method for a bi-directional job broker, comprising:

registering one or more action requests;

transmitting the one or more registered action requests to a client job scheduler;

converting the one or more registered action requests into one or more events in the client job scheduler, the one or more events associated with a job scheduled on the client job scheduler; and

sending one or more messages associated with the one or more events as a result of the job being run.

12. The program storage device claim 11, wherein a broker registers the one or more action requests;

13. The program storage device claim 11, wherein a manager job scheduler registers the one or more action requests.

14. The program storage device claim 11, further including converting the message into a manager job scheduler format.