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AUTOMATED CREATION OF MONITORING CONFIGURATION TEMPLATES FOR CLOUD SERVER IMAGES

  • US 20120297059A1
  • Filed: 03/26/2012
  • Published: 11/22/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. Non-transient media comprising software which, when executed on a computing system, causes the computing system to execute steps leading to creation of a monitoring configuration usable by a monitoring system for monitoring an instance in a cloud computing network, the instance being created by a cloud controller according to an image or provisioning template, the steps executed by the computing system under control of the software comprising:

  • maintaining a database of monitoring configuration templates, each monitoring configuration template being associated with an image or provisioning template;

    obtaining from the cloud controller information indicating that a new instance has been created using an image or provisioning template;

    obtaining from the cloud controller information identifying the image or provisioning template used for creating the new instance;

    determining if any of the monitoring configuration templates stored in the database of monitoring configuration templates is associated with the image or provisioning template used for creating the new instance;

    if none of the monitoring configuration templates stored in the database of monitoring configuration templates is associated with the image or provisioning template used for creating the new instance;

    creating a new monitoring configuration template;

    associating the new monitoring configuration template with the image or provisioning template used for creating the new instance; and

    adding the new monitoring configuration template to the database of monitoring configuration templates;

    using the monitoring configuration template that is associated with the image or provisioning template used for creating the new instance to create a monitoring configuration associated with the new instance; and

    providing the monitoring configuration associated with the new instance to the monitoring system.

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