Autonomic monitoring in a grid environment

• US 20050283788A1
• Filed: 06/17/2004
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Platform Computing Corporation (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Wei, Xiaohui, Bigagli, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,340,654 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks

Abstract

A system for performing autonomic monitoring in a computing grid is described. The system includes a plurality of modules, which when implemented into a computing grid, are operable to analyze objects of the grid and identify exception conditions associated with the objects. The system includes a configuration module for receiving information on specified objects to be monitored and exception conditions for the objects, an information collection module to collect job execution data associated with the objects, and an exception module to evaluate the job execution data associated with the objects and identify existing exception conditions. Related methods of performing autonomic monitoring in a grid system are also described.

Claims

1. A system for performing autonomic monitoring of objects in a networked computing grid having a plurality of resources for executing a plurality of jobs, comprising:

a configuration module for receiving information on one or more objects to be monitored and associated exception conditions for the one or more objects, the exception conditions being defined by parameters associated with job execution on the grid;

an information collection module in communication with the configuration module, the information collection module being operable to collect job execution information for the one or more objects to be monitored; and

an exception module in communication with the information collection module, the exception module being operable to identify the existence of the one or more exception conditions by evaluating the job execution information for the one or more objects to be monitored.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising an action module in communication with the exception module, the action module being operable to invoke actions to correct the exception conditions identified for the one or more objects.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the exception conditions are defined as Boolean expressions.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the exception conditions are defined in view of the resource usage of the one or more jobs.

5. The system of claim 1 further comprising an information filter associated with the information collection module, the information filter being operable to filter out information unrelated to the one or more objects.

6. The system of claim 2 wherein the action module comprises default actions to correct the exception conditions.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the action module comprises user-defined actions to override the default actions.

8. A method for performing autonomic monitoring of jobs in a networked computing grid, comprising:

defining one or more exception conditions for one or more jobs to be executed on one or more hosts within the grid;

collecting status information on the one or more jobs during execution of the one or more jobs; and

evaluating the job status information to determine whether the one or more exception condition exists.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising identifying jobs having the one or more exception conditions.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising invoking one or more actions to correct the identified one or more exception conditions.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein invoking one or more actions comprises closing the one or more hosts associated with the execution of the one or more jobs.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein invoking one or more actions comprises notifying a system administrator of the existence of the exception conditions.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein collecting status information comprises filtering out information unrelated to the one or more jobs.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein defining one or more exception conditions comprises defining the one or more exception conditions as Boolean expressions.

15. The method of claim 8 wherein evaluating the job status information comprises evaluating the resource usage of the one or more jobs.

16. A method for performing autonomic monitoring of objects in a computing grid, comprising:

defining one or more exception conditions for one or more objects in the grid, the one or more exception conditions being defined by parameters associated with job execution on the grid;

collecting job execution information on the one or more objects; and

evaluating the job execution information to determine whether the one or more exception conditions exist.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising identifying objects having the one or more exception conditions.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising invoking one or more actions to correct the identified one or more exception conditions.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the objects are selected from the group consisting of job queues, jobs, and hosts.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein defining the one or more exception conditions comprises defining the one or more exception conditions as Boolean expressions associated with job execution.