System Management Infrastructure for Corrective Actions to Servers with Shared Resources
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a customer requirements repository in a computer memory portion of a computing platform, containing corrective action preferences for each of a plurality customers sharing a first computing system to execute one or more application programs on behalf of each of said customers, wherein said corrective action preferences differ among said customers;
a repository inquirer portion of a computing platform, responsive to receipt of a fault event or out-of-limits condition for a shared resource of said first computing system domain;
querying said customer requirements repository,determining two or more affected application programs for two or more customers sharing said shared resource,determining affected customers on behalf of which said affected application programs are being executed;
a preference extractor portion of a computing platform, responsive to said repository inquirer, extracting from said repository corrective action preferences for each of said affected application programs; and
a corrective action instigator portion of a computing platform, responsive to said preference extractor, performing two or more corrective actions according to said extracted preferences, wherein said corrective actions comprise at least two different actions, and wherein at least one corrective action comprises moving execution of an application program from said first computing system to a second computing system.
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Abstract
A corrective action method or subsystem for providing corrective actions in a for a computing domain shared among multiple customers wherein different domain resources are shared by different customers, and each customer'"'"'s corrective action preferences are accommodated differently according a repository of customer preferences. A database may be queried when a fault event or out-of-limits condition is detected for a given shared resource to determine which customers share the resource, determine each affected customer'"'"'s response preferences, and to perform corrective actions according to those response preferences. For example, three customers may share a particular hard drive in a shared computing system. One customer may prefer to receive an email notice when the drive is nearly full, another may prefer to receive additional allocation of disk space elsewhere, and the third may prefer to receive a written report of space utilization.
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18 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a customer requirements repository in a computer memory portion of a computing platform, containing corrective action preferences for each of a plurality customers sharing a first computing system to execute one or more application programs on behalf of each of said customers, wherein said corrective action preferences differ among said customers; a repository inquirer portion of a computing platform, responsive to receipt of a fault event or out-of-limits condition for a shared resource of said first computing system domain; querying said customer requirements repository, determining two or more affected application programs for two or more customers sharing said shared resource, determining affected customers on behalf of which said affected application programs are being executed; a preference extractor portion of a computing platform, responsive to said repository inquirer, extracting from said repository corrective action preferences for each of said affected application programs; and a corrective action instigator portion of a computing platform, responsive to said preference extractor, performing two or more corrective actions according to said extracted preferences, wherein said corrective actions comprise at least two different actions, and wherein at least one corrective action comprises moving execution of an application program from said first computing system to a second computing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer readable memory comprising:
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a computer readable memory suitable for encoding software programs; and one or more software programs encoded by said computer readable memory, when executed, causing a processor to; provide a customer requirements repository in a computer memory portion of a computing platform, containing corrective action preferences for each of a plurality customers sharing a first computing system to execute one or more application programs on behalf of each of said customers, wherein said corrective action preferences differ among said customers; responsive to receipt of a fault event or out-of-limits condition for a shared resource of said first computing system domain; query said customer requirements repository, determine two or more affected application programs for two or more customers sharing said shared resource, determine affected customers on behalf of which said affected application programs are being executed; extract from said repository corrective action preferences for each of said affected application programs; and responsive to said preference extractor, performing two or more corrective actions according to said extracted preferences, wherein said corrective actions comprise at least two different actions, and wherein at least one corrective action comprises moving execution of an application program from said first computing system to a second computing system. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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