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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE MONITORING OF VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS

  • US 20100318990A1
  • Filed: 06/12/2009
  • Published: 12/16/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring machine activity of multiple virtual computing devices operating through at least one physical computing device, said method comprising:

  • running a monitoring agent on a physical computing device, said monitoring agent collecting data from said multiple virtual computing devices;

    measuring simple operating characteristics of only abase level virtual computing device, said simple operating characteristics comprising operating characteristics that are similar for said base level virtual computing device and said multiple virtual computing devices;

    monitoring complex operating characteristics using said monitoring agent by;

    creating an interdomain communications channel between said base level virtual computing device and said multiple virtual computing devices to gather information from said multiple virtual computing devices;

    measuring said complex operating characteristics for each of said multiple virtual computing devices using each of said multiple virtual computing devices, said complex operating characteristics comprising operating characteristics that are not similar for said base level virtual computing device and said multiple virtual computing devices;

    recording, by each of said multiple virtual computing devices, said complex operating characteristics of each of said multiple virtual computing devices andsharing, by each of said multiple virtual computing devices, said complex operating characteristics with said base level virtual computing device through said interdomain communications channels to transfer said complex operating characteristics to said monitoring agent;

    identifying simple events and complex events for each of said multiple virtual computing devices by evaluating said simple operating characteristics and said complex operating characteristics using said monitoring agent; and

    outputting said simple events and said complex events for each of said multiple virtual computing devices using said monitoring agent.

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