USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING MONITORING PROFILES

• US 20120284628A1
• Filed: 05/05/2011
• Published: 11/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: WONG, Karen Natalie, BEDNAR, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 9,553,948 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/736
• 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 11/076 by exceeding a count or rate limit, e.g. word- or bit count limit
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/301 where the computing system is a virtual computing platform, e.g. logically partitioned systems virtual machines G06F9/45533; logical partitioning of resources G06F9/5077
• 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 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A graphical user interface for a virtualized computing environment that includes a plurality of host computers, each having one or more virtual machines running therein, where the virtualized computing environment is configured with one or more monitoring profiles for monitoring a status of objects included in the virtualized computing environment, where the graphical user interface includes a first section and a second section. The first section organizes the one or more monitoring profiles, where each monitoring profile includes one or more rules and each rule corresponds to an action that is performed if the rule is violated. The second section organizes a first set of rules associated with a selected monitoring profile and corresponding actions associated with each rule in the first set of rules.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface for a virtualized computing environment including a plurality of host computers, each having one or more virtual machines running therein, wherein the virtualized computing environment is configured with one or more monitoring profiles for monitoring a status of objects included in the virtualized computing environment, said graphical user interface comprising:

a first section that displays one or more monitoring profiles to be managed and selected for viewing, wherein each monitoring profile includes one or more rules and each rule corresponds to one or more actions that are performed if the rule is violated; and

a second section that displays a first set of rules associated with a selected monitoring profile and corresponding actions associated with each rule in the first set of rules.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein a first monitoring profile is associated with one or more virtual machines in the virtualized computing environment.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 2, wherein a first rule is included in the first monitoring profile, and a first action associated with the first rule is performed when the first rule is violated for any of the one or more virtual machines associated with the first monitoring profile.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the one or more actions that are performed if a rule is violated include sending an email, issuing an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) trap, executing a script, migrating a virtual machine from one host computer to another host computer, or migrating a disk image of a virtual machine from one storage array to another storage array.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein each rule is associated with a status of a resource associated with an object included in the virtualized computing environment.

6. The graphical user interface of claim 5, wherein the resource comprises a processing resource, a disk resource, a memory resource, a network resource, or a system resource.

7. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a third section for organizing one or more objects included in the virtualized computing environment to which the selected monitoring profile is applied.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the second section includes a slider associated with a range of resource values and corresponding actions.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed in a computing device, enable a graphical user interface to be displayed, wherein the graphical user interface is for a virtualized computing environment including a plurality of host computers, each having one or more virtual machines running therein, wherein the virtualized computing environment is configured with one or more monitoring profiles for monitoring a status of objects included in the virtualized computing environment, said graphical user interface comprising:

a first section that displays one or more monitoring profiles to be managed and selected for viewing, wherein each monitoring profile includes one or more rules and each rule corresponds to one or more actions that are performed if the rule is violated; and

a second section that displays a first set of rules associated with a selected monitoring profile and corresponding actions associated with each rule in the first set of rules.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein a first monitoring profile is associated with one or more virtual machines in the virtualized computing environment.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein a first rule is included in the first monitoring profile, and a first action associated with the first rule is performed when the modified first rule is violated for any of the one or more virtual machines associated with the first monitoring profile.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the one or more actions that are performed if a rule is violated include sending an email, issuing an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) trap, executing a script, migrating a virtual machine from one host computer to another host computer, or migrating a disk image of a virtual machine from one storage array to another storage array.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein each rule is associated with a status of a resource associated with an object included in the virtualized computing environment.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the resource comprises a processing resource, a disk resource, a memory resource, a network resource, or a system resource.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the graphical user interface further includes a third section for organizing one or more objects included in the virtualized computing environment to which the selected monitoring profile is applied.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the second section includes a slider associated with a range of resource values and corresponding actions.

17. A graphical user interface for a virtualized computing environment including a plurality of host computers, each having one or more virtual machines running therein, wherein the virtualized computing environment is configured with one or more monitoring profiles for monitoring a status of objects included in the virtualized computing environment, said graphical user interface comprising:

a first section that displays a condensed hierarchy of a first virtual machine in the virtualized computing environment, wherein a first monitoring profile is associated with the first virtual machine and at least one additional monitoring profile is associated with at least one object included in the condensed hierarchy above the first virtual machine, wherein each monitoring profile includes one or more rules and each rule corresponds to an action that is performed if the rule is violated; and

a second section that displays a relative priority of the first monitoring profile and each of the additional monitoring profiles.

18. The graphical user interface of claim 17, wherein a rule included in the first monitoring profile has priority over a conflicting rule in one of the additional monitoring profiles.

19. The graphical user interface of claim 17, wherein a first rule included in one of the additional monitoring profiles has priority over a second rule included in another one of the additional monitoring profiles that conflicts with the first rule.

20. The graphical user interface of claim 19, wherein the first rule is included in a second monitoring profile and the third rule is included in a second monitoring profile, wherein the second monitoring profile is applied to an object that is closer to the first virtual machine in the effective hierarchy than an object to which the third monitoring profile is applied.

21. A method for generating a monitoring profile associated with one or more objects in a virtualized computing environment, said method comprising:

designating one or more conditions for the monitoring profile, wherein each condition is associated with a status of a resource associated with an object included in the virtualized computing environment;

designating, for each of the one or more conditions, one or more actions to be performed if the condition is violated; and

associating the monitoring profile with one or more objects included in the virtualized computing environment.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising designating, for each of the one or more conditions, one or more configuration parameters associated with the condition that define values that cause the condition to be violated.