TERMINAL USER-INTERFACE CLIENT FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE SERVERS IN HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

• US 20130132461A1
• Filed: 11/20/2011
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bhupendra Mohanlal Patel
• Original Assignee: Bhupendra Mohanlal Patel
• Inventors: PATEL, Bhupendra Mohanlal
• Granted Patent: US 8,918,449 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services

Abstract

In one exemplary embodiment, a terminal user-interface (UI) client is configured to accept a user-scripted command from a user. The user-scripted command includes an operating system command or a user-customized command. The user-scripted command is passed to a distributed server management platform. A node tag input by a user is accepted. The node tag identifies at least one agent node in a server in the cloud-computing platform to execute the user-scripted command. A distributed server management platform that passes the user-scripted command to a group broker of an agent group comprising the agent node identified by the node tag, and to pass a command result to the terminal UI. A group broker to pass the user-scripted command to the agent node, and to pass a command result from the agent node to the distributed server management platform.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing a cloud-computing server with a terminal user-interface client:

obtaining a command input from a terminal user-interface, wherein the command input comprises a server-executable instruction, and a node tag, and

wherein the node tag identifies at least one agent node on a server in the cloud-computing platform, and

wherein the terminal user-interface client comprises a command-line interface that accepts the command input and the node tag as input from user;

passing the command input to the at least one agent node on the server identified by the node tag;

obtaining a command execution result from the at least one agent node if a specified criterion is satisfied;

formatting the command execution result for display with the terminal user-interface.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein obtaining a command execution result from the at least one agent node if a specified criterion is satisfied comprises:

obtaining a command execution result from the at least one agent node if the server failed to execute the command input.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising:

counting a number of servers that failed to execute the command input.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the number of servers that failed to execute the command input is pushed to the terminal user-interface.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the command input comprises an operating system command.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the command input comprises a shell script for a command line interpreter emulator, and wherein the shell script is executable by a first operating system of a first server identified by the node tag.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the shell script is translated into a first format executable by the first operating system of the first server identified by the node tag and into a second format executable by a second operating system of a second server identified by the node tag.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the command input comprises a custom command.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the command input comprises an inline script.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the terminal user-interface comprises a distribute terminal emulator with at least one command-line input that is formatted for display with a smartphone.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a command sequence definition from the terminal user-interface, wherein the command sequence definition comprises a specified order for a plurality of command inputs to be executed.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 further comprising:

associating the command sequence definition with the node tag such that when a new node is created in a server, the command sequence is automatically executed.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 further comprising:

specifying dynamic properties that are replaced at runtime by the at least one agent node before command execution by the server.

14. A system of managing a server in a cloud-computing environment comprising:

a terminal user-interface (UI) client configured to;

accept a user-scripted command from a user, wherein the user-scripted command comprises an operating system command or a user-customized command,

pass the user-scripted command to a distributed server management platform,

accept a node tag input by a user, wherein the node tag identifies at least one agent node in a server in the cloud-computing platform to execute the user-scripted command;

a distributed server management platform to pass the user-scripted command to a group broker of an agent group comprising the agent node identified by the node tag, and pass a command result to the terminal UI; and

a group broker to pass the user-scripted command to the agent node, and to pass a command result from the agent node to the distributed server management platform.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein each user is assigned an agent node in each server of the cloud-computing platform.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the command result comprises a count successfully executed commands.