SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE MANAGEMENT ENGINE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140075019A1
• Filed: 08/19/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Kumar, Abhijit, Sapaliga, Bhavanishankara, Thyagarajan, Sivakumar, Mordani, Rajiv, Islam, Nazrul
• Granted Patent: US 10,122,596 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5058 Service discovery by the service manager

Abstract

A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.

Claims

1. A system for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising:

one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon;

a platform component that is provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, and that supports self-service provisioning for enterprise applications;

one or more service management engines, in communication with an orchestration engine, which are used to provision services as service types, including one or more provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring of the service types; and

wherein the system determines particular service types to be provisioned for use within the cloud environment, and configures corresponding service management engines within the platform component to support those particular service types.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more service management engines are used to parse a service definition package, and to provision services as one or more different service types, according to contents of the service definition package.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the platform content enables service types to be instantiated by the one or more service management engines, as provider service management engines, according to a configuration of the platform component itself.

4. A method of providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising:

providing one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon;

providing a platform component that is provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, and that supports self-service provisioning for enterprise applications;

providing one or more service management engines, in communication with an orchestration engine, which are used to provision services as service types, including one or more provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring of the service types; and

determining particular service types to be provisioned for use within the cloud environment, and configuring corresponding service management engines within the platform component to support those particular service types.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the one or more service management engines are used to parse a service definition package, and to provision services as one or more different service types, according to contents of the service definition package.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the platform content enables service types to be instantiated by the one or more service management engines, as provider service management engines, according to a configuration of the platform component itself.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

providing, at one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon, a platform component that is provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, and that supports self-service provisioning for enterprise applications;

providing one or more service management engines, in communication with an orchestration engine, which are used to provision services as service types, including one or more provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring of the service types; and

determining particular service types to be provisioned for use within the cloud environment, and configuring corresponding service management engines within the platform component to support those particular service types.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more service management engines are used to parse a service definition package, and to provision services as one or more different service types, according to contents of the service definition package.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the platform content enables service types to be instantiated by the one or more service management engines, as provider service management engines, according to a configuration of the platform component itself.