Hierarchical debug

• US 20050273490A1
• Filed: 05/20/2005
• Published: 12/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Inamdar, Rajendra, Shrivastava, Sandeep, Lindsay, R. Sean, Mousseau, Richard, LeCompte, Ryan, Hess, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 8,490,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0715 in a system implementing multitasking multitasking per se G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/079 Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/366 using diagnostics G06F11/0703 takes precedence

Abstract

Metadata can be used for determining or selecting debug points to activate for server software. The metadata can be used for selecting or logically grouping the debug point without requiring the selecting of debug points based upon package boundaries. The metadata can be used by the system to produce a select set of the debug activation information. This debug activation information can be used by a management unit to activate debug points in the server software.

Claims

1. Server software including:

debug points capable of activation to get debug information; and

metadata identifying logical groupings of debug points to allow activation of a group of debug points, wherein the metadata allows for the activation of logically grouped debug points across package boundaries.

2. The server software of claim 1, wherein the metadata is selected by a user from previously defined metadata.

3. The server software of claim 1, wherein the metadata is defined in object.

4. The server software of claim 3, wherein the metadata is defined in an MBean.

5. The server software of claim 1, wherein the debug points can be turned on without restarting the server software.

6. The server software of claim 1, wherein the metadata is arranged in a hierarchical arrangement of nodes.

7. The server software of claim 6, wherein when parent nodes are enabled the children nodes of the parent nodes are enabled by default.

8. The server software of claim 6, where some of the nodes are debug MBean attributes.

9. The server software of claim 6, wherein a debug point can be associated with more than one node.

10. The server software of claim 1, wherein the debug information is collected based on a request dye.

11. A method comprising:

using metadata to activate a group of debug points on server software; and

collecting debug information from the debug points;

the metadata identifying logical groupings of debug points to allow activation of the group of debug points, wherein the metadata allows for the activation of logically grouped debug points across package boundaries.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the metadata is selected by a user from previously defined metadata.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the metadata is defined in an object.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the metadata is defined in an MBean.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the debug points can be turned on without restarting the server software.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the metadata is arranged in a hierarchical arrangement of nodes.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein when parent nodes are enabled the children nodes of the parent nodes are enabled by default.

18. The method of claim 16, where some of the nodes are debug MBean attributes.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein a debug point can be associated with more than one node.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the debug information is collected based on a request dye.