MECHANISM FOR ACCESSING AND PROCESSING MONITORING DATA RESULTING FROM CUSTOMIZED MONITORING OF SYSTEM ACTIVITIES

• US 20120084436A1
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Pasternak, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,363,107 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3485 for I/O devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for 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 2201/88 Monitoring involving counting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

A mechanism for accessing and processing monitoring data resulting from customized monitoring of system activities. A method of embodiments of the invention includes invoking, via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a performance monitor at a host computer system to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems. The CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system. The method further includes accessing monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

invoking, via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a performance monitor at a host computer system to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems, wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system; and

accessing monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate a plurality of monitoring tools to monitor the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities and the one or more computer systems, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the performance monitor.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising stopping, via the CLI shell console, the performance monitor from performing the monitoring of the activities, wherein stopping is initiated by entering a stop command using the access interface of the CLI shell console.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing, via the data access layer, the monitoring data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising collecting, via the data access layer, results of the monitoring data analysis.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising providing the results via the CLI shell console.

7. A system comprising:

a host computing device having a memory to store instructions for a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console and a processing device to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processing device to;

invoke, via the CLI shell console, a performance monitor at the host computing device to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computing devices, wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computing device; and

access monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate a plurality of monitoring tools to monitor the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities and the one or more computer systems, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the performance monitor.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the processing device is further to stop, via the CLI shell console, the performance monitor from performing the monitoring of the activities, wherein stopping is initiated by entering a stop command using the access interface of the CLI shell console.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the processing device is further to analyze, via the data access layer, the monitoring data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to collect, via the data access layer, results of the monitoring data analysis.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to provide the results via the CLI shell console.

13. A machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method, comprising:

invoking, via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a performance monitor at a host computer system to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems, wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system; and

accessing monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate a plurality of monitoring tools to monitor the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities and the one or more computer systems, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the performance monitor.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises stopping, via the CLI shell console, the performance monitor from performing the monitoring of the activities, wherein stopping is initiated by entering a stop command using the access interface of the CLI shell console.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises analyzing, via the data access layer, the monitoring data.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises collecting, via the data access layer, results of the monitoring data analysis.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises providing the results via the CLI shell console.