Method and system for service management in a zone environment

• US 20070282992A1
• Filed: 06/01/2006
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Liu, Lei
• Application Number:
  US11/444,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20070282992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A method for managing a service executing in a zone environment involves receiving a service management request, identifying a collection of requirements required by the service management request, triggering a data collector to collect zone-specific performance attributes from a plurality of zones in the zone environment, identifying at least one zone in the plurality of zones that has zone-specific performance attributes conforming to the collection of requirements, and provisioning the service on the at least one zone based on the service management request.

Claims

1. A method for managing a service executing in a zone environment comprising:

receiving a service management request;

identifying a collection of requirements required by the service management request;

triggering a data collector to collect zone-specific performance attributes from a plurality of zones in the zone environment;

identifying at least one zone in the plurality of zones that has zone-specific performance attributes conforming to the collection of requirements; and

provisioning the service on the at least one zone based on the service management request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving service-specific performance attributes for the at least one zone of the zone environment;

collating the service-specific performance attributes according to the service to obtain collated performance attributes; and

transmitting the collated performance attributes to a service manager, wherein the service manager manages the service using the performance attributes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service-specific performance attributes comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of a response time indicator and a throughput indicator.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the zone-specific performance attributes comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a processor usage percentage, a memory usage percentage, a disk usage percentage, and a network usage percentage.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data collector is at least one probe.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data collector uses remote management application technology.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of zones execute on a plurality of hosts.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

populating a data repository with the zone-specific performance attributes.

9. A system for managing a service executing in a zone environment comprising:

a data collector configured to;

collect zone-specific performance attributes from a plurality of zones with the zone environment; and

a performance manager configured to;

receive a service management request;

identify a collection of requirements required by the service management request;

identify at least one zone in the plurality of zones that has zone-specific performance attributes conforming to the collection of requirements; and

provision the service on the at least one zone based on the service management request.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the performance manager is further configured to:

receive service-specific performance attributes for the at least one zone of the zone environment;

collate the service-specific performance attributes according to the service to obtain collated performance attributes; and

transmit the collated performance attributes to a service manager, wherein the service manager manages the service using the performance attributes.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the service-specific performance attributes comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of a response time indicator and a throughput indicator.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the zone-specific performance attributes comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a processor usage percentage, a memory usage percentage, a disk usage percentage, and a network usage percentage.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the data collector is at least one probe.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the data collector uses remote system invocation.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of zones execute on a plurality of hosts.

16. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

populating a data repository with the zone-specific performance attributes.

17. A computer usable medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to:

receive a service management request;

identify a collection of requirements required by the service management request;

trigger a data collector to collect zone-specific performance attributes from a plurality of zones;

identify at least one zone in the plurality of zones that has zone-specific performance attributes conforming to the collection of requirements; and

provision a service on the at least one zone based on the service management request.

18. The computer usable medium of claim 17, further comprising:

receive service-specific performance attributes for the at least one zone of the zone environment;

collate the service-specific performance attributes according to the service to obtain collated performance attributes; and

transmit the collated performance attributes to a service manager, wherein the service manager manages the service using the performance attributes.

19. The computer usable medium of claim 18, wherein the service-specific performance attributes comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of a response time indicator and a throughput indicator.

20. The computer usable medium of claim 17, wherein the zone-specific performance attributes comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a processor usage percentage, a memory usage percentage, a disk usage percentage, and a network usage percentage.