EMBEDDED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20100186094A1
• Filed: 03/06/2010
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snow Software, Inc. (Snow Software AB)
• Original Assignee: Embotics Corp. (Snow Software AB)
• Inventors: McCarthy, John, Brown, Thane, SHANNON, John P., White, Anthony Richard Phillip, Watson, David A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,661,548 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• 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 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• 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: G06F 11/3082 the data filtering being achieved by aggregating or compressing the monitored data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/50 Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/87 Monitoring of transactions

Abstract

An administration system for use within a server system is provided. The server system having a server that provides host management functions and the server system being able to accept computer cards inserted therein. The administration system comprises a computing system that is inserted in the server system, the computing system having a controller that assumes control over the communications bus.

Claims

1. An administration system deployed within a server system having a server computer, the administration system comprising:

a computing system embedded within the server system, and free from communication with an external device, for providing embedded autonomic control over the server system, including embedded autonomic control of an operating system and application programs running on the server computer in the server system,

the computing system having an autonomic controller for performing autonomic computing based administration of the server system, including the autonomic computing based administration of the operating system and the application programs, the autonomic computing based administration of the server system, including monitoring, analyzing and managing operation of the server system, all of which being performed by communicating with the server system only and excluding any communication with an external device.

2. The administration system according to claim 1, wherein the autonomic controller comprises:

a monitoring unit for monitoring operation of the server system and making observations regarding the operation of the server system; and

an analyzing unit for analyzing the observations.

3. A method for embedded autonomic administration of a server computer in a server system, the server computer having an operating system and application programs running on the server computer, and the server system comprising an embedded autonomic administration system, the method comprising:

a) providing an autonomic controller, which is free from communication with an external device, to the embedded administration system; and

b) at the autonomic controller, performing autonomic computing based administration of the server system, including the autonomic computing based administration of the operating system and the application programs;

wherein the autonomic computing based administration of the server system includes;

monitoring, analyzing and managing operation of the server system, all of which being performed by communicating with the server system only and excluding any communication with an external device.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step (b) comprises:

making observations regarding the operation of the server system; and

analyzing the observations.