System monitoring in multi-tier application environments

• US 20060085542A1
• Filed: 10/19/2004
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Fu, Jennifer Jie, Van Gaasbeck, Richard H.
• Application Number:
  US10/969,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085542A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1441 Resetting or repowering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems

Abstract

A method of system monitoring in multi-tier application environments. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a script is periodically initiated. System monitoring information is collected in accordance with the script. The system monitoring information is sent to a log file.

Claims

1. A method of multi-layer system monitoring in a multi-tier application environment comprising:

initiating a script periodically;

collecting system monitoring information in accordance with said script; and

sending said system monitoring information to a log file.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said script is initiated by the “

cron”

facility of a Unix-like operating system.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising accessing said log file by a system management application.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising restarting an application that is detected to be malfunctioning.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising resetting a hardware device that is detected to be malfunctioning.

6. A system of system monitoring comprising a log file wherein said log file is generated by a script launched by a command scheduler.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein said script is launched periodically.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein said command scheduler is a “

cron”

facility of a Unix-like operating system.

9. The system of claim 6 wherein said log file is accessible by a system management application.

10. The system of claim 6 that does not comprise a system management application.

11. A computer usable media comprising computer usable instructions, which when executed on a computer processor implement a method of multi-layer system monitoring in a multi-tier application environment, said method comprising:

initiating a script periodically,

collecting system monitoring information in accordance with said script; and

sending said system monitoring information to a log file.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein said script is initiated by the “

cron”

facility of a Unix-like operating system.

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising accessing said log file by a system management application.

14. The system of claim 12 further comprising restarting an application that is detected to be malfunctioning.

15. The system of claim 12 further comprising resetting a hardware device that is detected to be malfunctioning.

16. The system of claim 12 further comprising a log file wherein said log file is generated by said script.