METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT UTILIZING TCP/IP AND OPERATING SYSTEM DATA

• US 20090019160A1
• Filed: 07/12/2007
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schuler, Thomas P.
• Application Number:
  US11/776,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20090019160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5025 by proactively reacting to service quality change, e.g. by reconfiguration after service quality degradation or upgrade
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure

Abstract

A method for monitoring and managing workloads and data exchange in computing environments, includes: obtaining a foreign address from a set of netstat information by a collecting system; utilizing the foreign address to find the corresponding netstat information for a foreign system; wherein the process of obtaining foreign addresses is carried out in a recursive manner until the collecting system records one or more systems being utilized by applications running via transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) communications, and until the collecting system determines how the systems are interconnected; monitoring connections between the collecting system and the one or more systems to determine if and where a bottleneck has occurred; wherein the bottleneck occurs when the send and receive buffers are full, and the applications may no longer send data to the receive buffers; and rectifying the bottleneck by adjusting the amount of system resources the applications may use.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring and managing workloads and data exchange in computing environments, the method comprising:

obtaining a foreign address from a set of netstat information of a first system by a collecting system;

utilizing the foreign address to find the corresponding set of netstat information for a first foreign system;

wherein the process of obtaining foreign addresses is carried out in a recursive maimer until the collecting system records one or more systems being utilized by one or more applications running on the collecting system via transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) communications, and until the collecting system determines how the systems are interconnected;

monitoring connections between the collecting system and the one or more systems to determine if and where a bottleneck has occurred;

wherein the bottleneck occurs when one or more send and receive buffers are full, and the one or more applications may no longer send data to the one or more receive buffers; and

rectifying the bottleneck by adjusting the amount of system resources the one or more applications may use.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the netstat information is derived from TCP/IP running in the computing environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the netstat information is derived from an operating system (OS) running in the computing environment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the netstat information is derived from at least one of the following:

TCP/IP, and OS information in the computing environment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing environment is at least one of the following:

a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wireless network, a global network, Internet, and an intranet.

6. A system for monitoring and managing workloads and data exchange in a computing environment, the system comprising:

a computing environment;

a set of hardware and networking resources;

an algorithm implemented on the set of hardware and networking resources;

wherein the algorithm is configured to obtain a foreign address from a set of netstat information of a first network resource by a collecting network resource;

wherein the algorithm utilizes the foreign address to find the corresponding set of netstat information for a first foreign network resource;

wherein the algorithm operates in a recursive manner until the foreign addresses of one or more network resources utilized by one or more applications running on a collecting network resource via transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) communications are recorded by the collecting network resource, and until the collecting network resource determines how the one or more network resources are interconnected;

wherein the algorithm monitors connections between the collecting network resource and the one or more network resources to determine if and where a bottleneck has occurred;

wherein the bottleneck occurs when one or more send and receive buffers associated with the collecting network resource and the one or more network resources are full, and the one or more applications may no longer send data to the one or more receive buffers; and

wherein the algorithm rectifies the bottleneck by adjusting the amount of network resources the one or more applications may use.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the netstat information is derived from TCP/IP running in the computing environment.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the netstat information is derived from an operating system (OS) running in the computing environment.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the netstat information is derived from at least one of the following:

TCP/IP, and OS information in the computing environment.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the computing environment is at least one of the following:

a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wireless network, a global network, Internet, and an intranet.