Measuring Provisioning Capacity Across Distributed Systems

• US 20130151689A1
• Filed: 12/08/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: GanapathyRaj, Pradeep, McLean, Michael, Serbanescu, Radu, Chen, Meng Hua
• Granted Patent: US 9,766,941 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/048 mobile agents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Provisioning capacity measuring may be provided. First, a provisioning monitoring job may run on a grid manager that spawns a plurality of farm monitoring jobs onto a respective plurality of farms. Next, a user count for each of the respective plurality of farms may be respectively provided. The user count may comprise a number of users on each of the respective plurality of farms. An event alert may be provided when the user count for any of the respective plurality of farms is greater than a threshold.

Claims

1. A method for measuring provisioning capacity, the method comprising:

running a provisioning monitoring job on a grid manager;

spawning, by the provisioning monitoring job, a plurality of farm monitoring jobs onto a respective plurality of farms;

providing respectively, by the plurality of farm monitoring jobs, a user count for each of the respective plurality of farms, the user count comprising a number of users on each of the respective plurality of farms; and

providing an event alert when the user count for any of the respective plurality of farms is greater than a threshold.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager comprises running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager being configured to run on a network including the plurality of farms.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager comprises running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager periodically.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprises spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a content farm.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprises spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a directory services farm.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprises spawning onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a content farm and a directory services farm.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms comprises providing the user count to the grid manager.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms comprises aggregating a number of licensed users and a number of unlicensed users into the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving, to a grid manager database, the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving, to a grid manager database, the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms, the grid manager database residing on the grid manager.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the event alert comprises providing the event alert by the grid manager.

12. A method for measuring provisioning capacity, the method comprising:

running a provisioning monitoring job on a grid manager;

spawning, by the provisioning monitoring job, a content farm monitoring job onto a content farm;

spawning, by the provisioning monitoring job, a directory services farm monitoring job onto a directory services farm;

determining, by the directory services farm monitoring job, a count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the directory services farm;

passing the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the directory services farm to the content farm monitoring job on the content farm;

determining, by the content farm monitoring job, a count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the content farm based at least upon the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the directory services farm;

passing, from the content farm monitoring job, the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the content farm and the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the directory services farm to the grid manager;

providing, by the grid manager, a first event alert when the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the content farm is greater than a first threshold; and

providing, by the grid manager, a second event alert when the count of the licensed users and unlicensed users within the directory services farm is greater than a second threshold.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager comprises running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager being configured to run on a network including the plurality of farms.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager comprises running the provisioning monitoring job on the grid manager periodically.

15. A system for measuring provisioning capacity, the system comprising:

a memory storage; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to;

spawn a plurality of farm monitoring jobs onto a respective plurality of farms;

respectively receive a user count for each of a respective plurality of farms, the user count comprising a number of users on each of the respective plurality of farms; and

provide an event alert when the user count for any of the respective plurality of farms is greater than a threshold.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprises the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a content farm.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprises the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a directory services farm.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprises the processing unit being operative to spawn onto the respective plurality of farms comprising a content farm and a directory services farm.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the processing unit being operative to receive the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms comprises the processing unit being operative to receive the user count comprising an aggregated number of licensed users and a number of unlicensed users for each of the respective plurality of farms.

20. The system of claim 15, further comprises the processing unit being operative to save, to a grid manager database, the user count for each of the respective plurality of farms.