APPLICATION-CENTRIC RESOURCES AND CONNECTIVITY CONFIGURATION

• US 20100333060A1
• Filed: 06/30/2009
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Kirchgaessner, Walter, Minov, Jassen, Kostov, Dimitar, Dobtchev, Hristo
• Granted Patent: US 9,507,587 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3017 where the computing system is implementing multitasking multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• 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 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions

Abstract

In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to provide application-centric resource management of a plurality of functional units in an enterprise environment is disclosed. The system, in an exemplary embodiment, comprises a deploy service module to determine whether one or more of the plurality of functional units within the enterprise environment is added or removed, an information model repository to provide information related to the plurality of functional units, a functional unit container to store a listing of resource services related to the plurality of functional units, and a managed resources container to associate each of the plurality of functional units with one or more development components in the enterprise environment. A user-interface is configured to display non-technical management information relating to each of the plurality of functional units.

Claims

1. A system to provide application-centric resource management of a plurality of functional units in an enterprise environment, the system comprising:

an information model repository to provide information related to each of the plurality of functional units;

a functional unit container coupled to the information model repository, the functional unit container to store a listing of resource services related to the plurality of functional units;

a managed resources container coupled to the functional unit container, the managed resources container to associate each of the plurality of functional units with one or more development components in the enterprise environment; and

a user-interface coupled to the functional unit container to display non-technical management information relating to each of the plurality of functional units.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an application server engine.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the functional unit container is an integral portion of the application server engine.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the application server engine is an application server Java core.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the information model repository is based on a common information model.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the information related to the plurality of functional units is contained in Mbeans.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the functional unit container is further configured to register or un-register each of the plurality of functional units through an addition or a removal of one or more Mbeans associated with each of the plurality of functional units based upon a determination of the deploy service module.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the information model repository is further configured to make a determination as to whether each of the plurality of functional units is configured.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the user-interface is configured to allow a user to manage the plurality of functional units in a graphical interface.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a deploy service module coupled to the functional unit container and the information model repository, the deploy service module to determine whether one or more of the plurality of functional units within the enterprise environment is added or removed.

11. A method to provide application-centric resource management of a plurality of functional units in an enterprise environment, the method comprising:

determining whether one or more of the plurality of functional units exists within the enterprise environment;

providing information related to the plurality of functional units;

storing a listing of resource services related to each of the plurality of functional units;

associating each of the plurality of functional units with one or more development components in the enterprise environment; and

displaying, to a user, non-technical management information relating to each of the plurality of functional units.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising allowing the user to start or stop one or more of the plurality of functional units by selecting a displayed icon.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising allowing the user to view any other ones of the plurality of functional units prior to selecting starting or stopping one or more of the plurality of functional units.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising allowing the user to view development components associated with one or more of the plurality of functional units by selecting a displayed icon.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising providing the information related to the plurality of functional units based on a common information model.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising selecting the information related to the plurality of functional units to be contained in Mbeans.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising registering or un-registering each of the plurality of functional units through an addition or a removal of one or more Mbeans associated with each of the plurality of functional units based upon a determination of a deploy service module.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining whether each of the plurality of functional units is configured.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising allowing the user to manage the plurality of functional units through a graphical interface.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising allowing the user to view a run-time status of one or more of the plurality of functional units by selecting an icon.

21. A machine-readable storage medium including a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes at least one of the one or more processors to perform a method to provide application-centric resource management of a plurality of functional units in an enterprise environment, the method comprising:

determining whether one or more of the plurality of functional units exists within the enterprise environment;

providing information related to the plurality of functional units;

storing a listing of resource services related to the plurality of functional units;

associating each of the plurality of functional units with one or more development components in the enterprise environment; and

displaying, to a user, non-technical management information relating to each of the plurality of functional units.

22. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the method further comprises allowing the user to start or stop one or more of the plurality of functional units by selecting a displayed icon.

23. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the method further comprises allowing the user to view any other ones of the plurality of functional units prior to selecting starting or stopping one or more of the plurality of functional units.

24. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the method further comprises allowing the user to view a run-time status of one or more of the plurality of functional units by selecting an icon.

25. A method to provide application-centric resource management of a plurality of functional units in an enterprise environment, the method comprising:

determining relationships between each of the plurality of functional units with one or more underlying related components;

correlating each of the plurality of functional units with the one or more underlying related components based on the determined relationships;

generating a hierarchical structure between each of the plurality of technical entities with the one or more related components based on the correlation;

storing the hierarchical structure of each of the plurality of functional units with the one or more related components; and

displaying, to a user, one or more of the plurality of functional units as a single entity based on the generated hierarchical structure.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the determining relationships between each of the plurality of functional units with the one or more underlying related components is based on a common information model.