Apparatus for business service oriented management infrastructure

• US 20070198554A1
• Filed: 02/10/2006
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Liu, Lei
• Application Number:
  US11/351,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198554A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method for management of a grid fabric that includes receiving a management request using a protocol, decoupling the management request from the protocol to obtain a decoupled management request, selecting a grid control service from a plurality of grid control services configured to perform the decoupled management request, identifying at least one node in the grid fabric associated with the decoupled management request by the grid control service, executing at least one command based on the decoupled management request using the at least one node and the grid control service, wherein the at least one command generates a result, and outputting the result.

Claims

1. A method for management of a grid fabric comprising:

receiving a management request using a protocol;

decoupling the management request from the protocol to obtain a decoupled management request;

selecting a grid control service from a plurality of grid control services configured to perform the decoupled management request;

identifying at least one node in the grid fabric associated with the decoupled management request by the grid control service;

executing at least one command based on the decoupled management request using the at least one node and the grid control service, wherein the at least one command generates a result; and

outputting the result.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying at least one node comprises:

obtaining management data; and

determining from the management data the at least one node to execute the at least one command.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the management data comprises performance information, and wherein the performance information is generated by triggering a plurality of probes.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the management data comprises configuration information, and wherein the configuration information identifies hardware of the at least one node.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the management request is a request for provisioning an application on the grid fabric.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the request for provisioning an application comprises the application and a projected usage.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein executing at least one command comprises provisioning the at least one node.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the management request is a request for performance information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a service manager sending the request is pluggable.

10. A system for gathering management data from a grid fabric comprising:

a transport binder configured to;

to receive a management request using a protocol; and

decouple the management request from the protocol to obtain a decoupled management request;

a grid control service of a plurality of grid control services configured to;

identify at least one node in the grid fabric associated with the decoupled management request;

execute at least one command based on the decoupled management request using the at least one node, wherein the at least one command generates a result; and

output the result; and

a grid management bus connected to the transport binder and configured to select the grid control service from the plurality of grid control services configured to perform the decoupled management request.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein identifying at least one node comprises:

obtaining management data; and

determining from the management data the at least one node to execute the at least one command.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the management data comprises performance information, wherein the performance information is generated by triggering a plurality of probes.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the management data comprises configuration information, wherein the configuration information identifies hardware of the at least one node.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the management request is a request for provisioning an application on the grid fabric.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the request for provisioning an application comprises the application and a projected usage.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein executing at least one command comprises provisioning the at least one node.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the management request is a request for performance information.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein a service manager sending the request is pluggable.

19. A computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for executing a method for managing a grid fabric comprising:

receiving a management request using a protocol;

decoupling the management request from the protocol to obtain a decoupled management request; and

selecting a grid control service from a plurality of grid control services configured to perform the decoupled management request,

wherein the grid control service identifies at least one node in the grid fabric associated with the decoupled management request, and wherein the at least one node executes at least one command based on the decoupled management request to output a result.

20. The computer usable medium of claim 19, wherein identifying at least one node comprises:

obtaining management data; and

determining from the management data the at least one node to execute the at least one command.