SELF-MONITORED COMMANDS

• US 20140149982A1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Zaslavsky, Yair, Asayag, Moti
• Granted Patent: US 10,185,582 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3017 where the computing system is implementing multitasking multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• 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 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects

Abstract

A host controller receives a request to perform an action in a virtual computing system. The host controller, creates a command to execute operations associated with the request and creates a job to monitor a progress of the operations of the command. As the command is executing the operations, the host controller receives an indication of the progress of the command execution, wherein the operations report the progress to the job each time an operation is completed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request to perform an action in a virtual computing system;

creating, by a processing device, a command to execute operations associated with the request;

creating a job to monitor a progress of the operations of the command;

as the command is executing the operations, receiving an indication of the progress of the command execution, wherein the operations report the progress to the job each time an operation is completed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the job exposes an application programming interface (API) and the command calls the API each time an operation is completed to report the progress of the command.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the command calls the API each time an operation is started to report the progress of the command.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording the progress of the command in a command status database.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the command is a synchronous command that terminates when execution of all operations associated with the command are completed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the command comprises an asynchronous command that terminates once an operation is completed by a host server in the virtual computing system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual computing system does not comprise a centralized task process manager.

8. A system comprising:

a processing device; and

a memory coupled to the processing device; and

a host controller, executable by the processing device from the memory, to;

receive a request to perform an action in a virtual computing system;

create a command to execute operations associated with the request;

create a job to monitor a progress of the operations of the command;

as the command is executing the operations, receive an indication of the progress of the command execution, wherein the operations report the progress to the job each time an operation is completed.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the job exposes an application programming interface (API) and the command calls the API each time an operation is completed to report the progress of the command.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the command calls the API each time an operation is started to report the progress of the command.

11. The system of claim 8, the host controller further to:

record the progress of the command in a command status database.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the command is a synchronous command that terminates when execution of all operations associated with the command are completed.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the command comprises an asynchronous command that terminates once an operation is completed by a host server in the virtual computing system.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the virtual computing system does not comprise a centralized task process manager.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request to perform an action in a virtual computing system;

creating, by the processing device, a command to execute operations associated with the request;

creating a job to monitor a progress of the operations of the command;

as the command is executing the operations, receiving an indication of the progress of the command execution, wherein the operations report the progress to the job each time an operation is completed.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the job exposes an application programming interface (API) and the command calls the API each time an operation is completed to report the progress of the command.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the command calls the API each time an operation is started to report the progress of the command.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

recording the progress of the command in a command status database.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the command is a synchronous command that terminates when execution of all operations associated with the command are completed.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the command comprises an asynchronous command that terminates once an operation is completed by a host server in the virtual computing system.

21. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the virtual computing system does not comprise a centralized task process manager.