SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING, MONITORING, AND CONFIGURING SERVICES IN A NETWORK

• US 20100306347A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: DeHaan, Michael Paul
• Granted Patent: US 9,280,399 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication

Abstract

A services tool can detect, monitor, and manage software providing services in and for the network. The services tool can identify different types of software that provides services for the network (“services software”) and types of software that provide support (“support software”) to the services software. The services tool can determine configuration data for both the services software and the support software. The services tool can automatically identify when particular services software needs to be linked to particular support software. The services tool can configure the services software and/or support software to link the two according to the rules.

Claims

1. A method of configuring services in a network, comprising:

identifying first software executing on a computing system that requires support from second software;

determining information for establishing communications between the first software and the second software; and

configuring at least one of the first software and the second software according to the information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

receiving an identification of the first software that requires support from the second software.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

detecting that the first software requires support from the second software.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring at least one of the first software and the second software comprises:

configuring a programming interface of at least one of the first software and the second software to establish the communications.

5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

querying the first software and the second software to collect the information.

6. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

storing the information in a computer readable storage medium.

7. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

instructing a management system to query the first software and the second software to collect the information.

8. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving the information from a monitoring application querying the first software and the second software.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, the method further comprising:

instructing a management system to query the first software and the second software to collect the information.

9. A computer readable storage medium comprising instructions for causing a processing system to perform a method comprising:

identifying first software executing on a computing system that requires support from second software;

determining information for establishing communications between the first software and the second software; and

configuring at least one of the first software and the second software according to the information.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

receiving an identification of the first software that requires support from the second software.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

detecting that the first software requires support from the second software.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein configuring at least one of the first software and the second software comprises:

configuring a programming interface of at least one of the first software and the second software to establish the communications.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, the method further comprising:

querying the first software and the second software to collect the information.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, the method further comprising:

storing the information in a computer readable storage medium.

16. The method of claim 9, the method further comprising:

receiving the information from a monitoring application querying the first software and the second software.

17. A management tool, the management tool being embodied in a computer readable storage medium and comprising instructions for causing a processing system to perform a method comprising:

identifying first software executing on a computing system that requires support from second software;

determining information for establishing communications between the first software and the second software; and

configuring at least one of the first software and the second software according to the information.

18. The management tool of claim 17, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

receiving an identification of the first software that requires support from the second software.

19. The management tool of claim 17, wherein identifying the first software that requires support from the second software comprises:

detecting that the first software requires support from the second software.

20. The management tool of claim 17, wherein configuring at least one of the first software and the second software comprises:

configuring a programming interface of at least one of the first software and the second software to establish the communications.