Method and system for identification of decisive action state of server components via telemetric condition tracking

• US 20080046559A1
• Filed: 08/16/2006
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Langer, Yuri, Urmanov, Aleksey M., Gross, Kenneth C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,341,260 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/16 using machine learning or artificial intelligence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

A method for performing server monitoring via condition tracking and state identification of server components. In one embodiment, the method includes continuously monitoring a server, the server having a plurality of components, determining whether a component of the plurality of components has entered a maintenance state, and triggering a maintenance action for the component if it has entered the maintenance state.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

continuously monitoring a server, the server having a plurality of components;

determining whether a component of the plurality of components has entered a maintenance state; and

triggering a maintenance action for the component if it has entered the maintenance state.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the continuously monitoring of the server comprises tracking each component and its corresponding state to determine whether one or more components have entered the maintenance state.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining an initial condition of the server by reading a current state of the server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the component has entered the maintenance state when there is a change in a component behavior.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the change in the component behavior comprises the component behavior crossing a predetermined threshold level.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a request for maintenance;

processing the request for maintenance; and

selecting the maintenance action from a plurality of maintenance actions to be performed on the component.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the maintenance state comprises a decisive action state.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the tracking of each component is performed via telemetric condition tracking.

9. A system comprising:

a server maintenance module to continuously monitor a server, the server having a plurality of components;

a state identification module to determine whether a component of the plurality of components has entered a maintenance state; and

a maintenance action module to trigger a maintenance action for the component if it has entered the maintenance state.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a telemetry tracking module to track each component and its corresponding state to determine whether one or more components have entered the maintenance state.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the server maintenance module is further to obtain an initial condition of the server by reading a current state of the server.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the component has entered the maintenance state when there is a change in a component behavior.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the change in the component behavior comprises the component behavior crossing a predetermined threshold level

14. The server of claim 9, further comprising:

a maintenance scheduler module to generate a request for maintenance; and

the maintenance action module to

receive the request for maintenance,

process the request for maintenance, and

select the maintenance action from a plurality of maintenance actions to be performed on the component.

15. An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium having instructions which when executed, cause a machine to:

continuously monitor a server, the server having a plurality of components;

determine whether a component of the plurality of components has entered a maintenance state; and

trigger a maintenance action for the component if it has entered the maintenance state.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the instructions when executed to continuously monitor the server, cause the machine to track each component and its corresponding state to determine whether one or more components have entered the maintenance state.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the instructions when further executed, cause the machine to obtain an initial condition of the server by reading a current state of the server.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the component has entered the maintenance state when there is a change in a component behavior.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the change in the component behavior comprises the component behavior crossing a predetermined threshold level.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 15, wherein the instructions when further executed, cause the machine to

generate a request for maintenance;

process the request for maintenance; and

select the maintenance action from a plurality of maintenance actions to be performed on the component.