METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF ALERTS

• US 20120254675A1
• Filed: 03/29/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: STEPANENKO, Anna, CHELLAPPAN, Bhuvaneswari, PUCCIANTI, Sylvain B.
• Granted Patent: US 8,667,340 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/57
• 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 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display

Abstract

A distributed computing system includes a plurality of intercommunicating component machines. In a method for alert processing, when a component machine fails to perform an operation, and no alert information regarding that operation is currently stored by that component machine, peer machines among the component machines are identified with regard to the operation. Notification is sent to the peer machines regarding failure to perform the operation, notifying the peer machines to store alert information regarding the operation. The component machine stores the alert information regarding the operation and issues an alert corresponding to the failure to perform the operation. A computer readable medium containing executable instructions is also described.

Claims

1. A method for alert processing in a distributed computing system that includes a plurality of component machines, the method comprising:

upon failing to perform an operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that no alert information regarding the operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the operation,

sending a notification regarding failure to perform the operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to store alert information regarding the operation,

storing the alert information regarding the operation; and

issuing an alert corresponding to the failure to perform the operation.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon successfully performing a previously failed operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that alert information regarding the previously failed operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the previously failed operation,

sending a notification regarding the successful performance of the previously failed operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to delete stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation,

deleting the currently stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation, and

clearing the alert.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein clearing the alert comprises sending a notification regarding the successful performance of the previously failed operation to an administration console of the distributed computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert information is retrieved from a previously stored list of types of alerts and their corresponding operations.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the list is obtained from a central repository of the distributed computing system during initialization of said one of the component machines.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein issuing an alert comprises sending a notification regarding failure to perform the operation to an administration console of the distributed computing system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying other component machines comprises retrieving data from a central repository.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by a processor of a component machine of a distributed computing system will cause the processor to perform the method of:

upon failing to perform an operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that no alert information regarding the operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the operation,

sending a notification regarding failure to perform the operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to store alert information regarding the operation,

storing the alert information regarding the operation; and

issuing an alert corresponding to the failure to perform the operation.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions further include instructions for:

upon successfully performing a previously failed operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that alert information regarding the previously failed operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the previously failed operation,

sending a notification regarding the successful performance of the previously failed operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to delete stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation,

deleting the currently stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation, and

clearing the alert.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein clearing the alert comprises sending a notification regarding the successful performance of the previously failed operation to an administration console of the distributed computing system.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the alert information is retrieved from a previously stored list of types of alerts and their corresponding operations.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the list is obtained from a central repository of the distributed computing system during initialization of said one of the component machines.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein issuing an alert comprises sending a notification regarding failure to perform the operation to an administration console of the distributed computing system.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein identifying other component machines comprises retrieving data from a central repository.

15. A distributed computing system for processing of alerts, the system comprising:

a plurality of component machines capable of intercommunication, each component machine including a processor and a computer usable medium connected to the processor, wherein the computer usable medium contains a set of instructions to;

upon failing to perform an operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that no alert information regarding the operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the operation,

sending a notification regarding failure to perform the operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to store alert information regarding the operation,

storing the alert information regarding the operation, and

issuing an alert corresponding to the failure to perform the operation; and

upon successfully performing a previously failed operation by one of the component machines and upon verifying that alert information regarding the previously failed operation is currently stored by that component machine, said one of the component machines performing;

identifying other component machines of the distributed computing system that are peer machines with regard to the previously failed operation,

sending a notification regarding the successful performance of the previously failed operation to the peer machines for notifying the peer machines to delete stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation,

deleting the currently stored alert information regarding the previously failed operation, and

clearing the alert;

and

an administration console capable of communicating with said plurality of component machines, the administration console including a user interface via which an issued alert may be displayed.

16. The system of claim 15, comprising a central repository that includes information regarding said plurality of component machines and operations that each of said plurality of component machines is configured to perform.

17. The system of claim 15, comprising a central repository that includes information regarding types of alerts and their corresponding operations.

18. The system of claim 15, comprising a communications medium for enabling the intercommunication among said plurality of component machines and for enabling communication between the administration console and said plurality of component machines.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein each component machine of said plurality of component machines comprises a data storage component configured to store the alert information.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the user interface is configured to display a list of issued alerts that were not cleared.