System and Method to Synthesize Custom Metric Attributes from Available MBean Attributes on an Application Server

• US 20090182880A1
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Inamdar, Rajendra, Shrivastava, Sandeep, Cico, Michael, Simpson, Franklin, Mousseau, Richard P.
• Granted Patent: US 8,015,282 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227

Abstract

A system and method for synthesizing custom metric attributes from available attributes. The system includes an application server that exposes available metric attributes of a MBean. A network console displays for selection the metric attributes of the MBean on a navigation tree and a view panel is located on the network management console where the metric attributes are dragged. The console and view panel allow network administrators to review monitoring data collected exposed by the application server. Custom attributes are created by combining attributes made available by the application server and can be combined to synthesize a custom expression that can be made available to other managed servers on the application server.

Claims

1. A system to synthesize metric attributes from available MBean attributes comprising:

an application server that exposes available metric attributes of a MBean;

a network management console that displays for selection said attributes on a navigation tree;

a view panel located on said network management console where said attributes are dragged;

wherein custom attributes are created by combining available attributes of said MBeans by the application server or customer MBeans if they are deployed on the application server, wherein said attributes are combined to synthesize custom attributes to create an expression.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the network management console provides intrinsic functions to build said expressions.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein a custom attribute is built using other custom attributes that have previously been synthesized.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said attributes are made available to one or a plurality of managed servers on the application server.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said expression is available to other managed servers on the application server and is used to synthesize other expressions.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein a custom attribute is built by selecting attributes from a navigation tree by dragging and dropping the selected attributes into a view panel located on the network management console.

7. A method to synthesize metric attributes from available MBean attributes comprising the steps of:

identifying all the available metric attributes from the different MBeans which are exposed by the application server;

selecting particular attributes from a navigation tree that a network management console provides;

dragging said attribute into a view panel located on the network management console;

creating custom attributes by combining available attributes of MBeans defined by the application server or customer MBeans if they are deployed on the application server;

wherein said attributes of available MBeans that have been exposed by the application server are located in a navigation tree that the network management console provides;

wherein said attributes can be combined to synthesize custom attributes to create an expression.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the network management console provides intrinsic functions to build said expressions.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein a custom attribute is built using other custom attributes that have previously been synthesized.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein said attributes are made available to one or a plurality of managed servers on the application server.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein said expression is available to other managed servers on the application server and is used to synthesize other expressions.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein a custom attribute is built by selecting attributes from a navigation tree by dragging and dropping the selected attributes into a view panel located on the network management console.

13. A computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computer to perform the steps of:

identifying all the available metric attributes from the different MBeans which are exposed by the application server;

selecting particular attributes from a navigation tree that a network management console provides;

dragging said attribute into a view panel located on the network management console;

creating custom attributes by combining available attributes of MBeans defined by the application server or customer MBeans if they are deployed on the application server;

wherein said attributes of available MBean that have been exposed by the application server are located in a navigation tree that the network management console provides, and wherein said attributes can be combined to synthesize custom attributes to create an expression.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein a custom attribute is built using other custom attributes that have previously been synthesized.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the network management console provides intrinsic functions to build said expressions.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein said attributes are made available to one or a plurality of managed servers on the application server.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein said expression is available to other managed servers on the application server and is used to synthesize other expressions.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein a custom attribute is built by selecting attributes from a navigation tree by dragging and dropping the selected attributes into a view panel located on the network management console.