Method For Acquiring Monitoring Data and System Thereof, Task Distribution Server and Agent

• US 20150156087A1
• Filed: 02/05/2015
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: LIU, Yongfeng
• Granted Patent: US 10,313,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A method for acquiring monitoring data and a system thereof, a task distribution server and an agent are disclosed. The method for acquiring the monitoring data includes: receiving registrations of the agent and a gathering device by the task distribution server; receiving, by the task distribution server, an acquiring instruction sent by the gathering device; and sending, by the task distribution server, the acquiring instruction to the agent to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data. Hence, a flexibility in acquiring the monitoring data is improved.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring monitoring data, comprising:

receiving registrations of an agent and a gathering device by a task distribution server;

receiving, by the task distribution server, an acquiring instruction sent by the gathering device; and

sending the acquiring instruction to the agent by the task distribution server, to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data.

2. The method for acquiring the monitoring data according to claim 1, wherein the receiving the registration of the agent by the task distribution server comprises:

receiving, by the task distribution server, a registration request of the agent, an identification of the agent and an acquiring index supported by the agent; and

returning a registration accomplishment message to the agent by the task distribution server.

3. The method for acquiring the monitoring data according to claim 1, wherein before the sending the acquiring instruction to the agent by the task distribution server, to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data, the method for acquiring the monitoring data further comprises:

receiving, by the task distribution server, a task assignment request sent from the agent;

determining, by the task distribution server, whether there is a task to be allocated; and

returning, by the task distribution server, a no task message to the agent if the task distribution server determines that there is no task to be allocated, to make the agent to enter a sleep state.

4. The method for acquiring the monitoring data according to claim 1, wherein before the sending the acquiring instruction to the agent by the task distribution server, to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data, the method for acquiring the monitoring data further comprises:

receiving, by the task distribution server, a pre-gathering message sent from the agent, wherein the pre-gathering message indicates that the agent is in an idle state; and

determining by the task distribution server that the agent is in the idle state, after the pre-gathering message sent from the agent is received by the task distribution server.

5. The method for acquiring the monitoring data according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring instruction comprises an identification of an agent to perform an acquisition, an acquiring index and a data transmission mode;

wherein the receiving, by the task distribution server, an acquiring instruction sent by the gathering device comprises;

reading the identification of the agent, the acquiring index and the data transmission mode from the acquiring instruction by the task distribution server; and

wherein the sending the acquiring instruction to the agent by the task distribution server, to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data comprises;

sending the acquiring instruction to an agent corresponding to the identification and assigning the acquiring index and the data transmission mode to the agent corresponding to the identification, by the task distribution server.

6. The method for acquiring the monitoring data according to claim 5, wherein after the sending the acquiring instruction to an agent corresponding to the identification and assigning the acquiring index and the data transmission mode to the agent corresponding to the identification, by the task distribution server, the method for acquiring the monitoring data further comprises:

receiving, by the task distribution server, the monitoring data which corresponds to the acquiring index and is sent in the data transmission mode by the agent corresponding to the identification; and

sending the monitoring data corresponding to the acquiring index to the gathering device by the task distribution server.

7. A task distribution server, comprising a non-transitory storage configured to store units comprising:

a registration unit, configured to receive registrations of an agent and a gathering device;

a receiving unit, configured to receive an acquiring instruction sent by the gathering device; and

a sending unit, configured to send the acquiring instruction to the agent to instruct the agent to acquire monitoring data.

8. The task distribution server according to claim 7, wherein the registration unit is configured to receive the registration of the agent by:

receiving a registration request from the agent, an identification of the agent and an acquiring index supported by the agent; and

returning a registration accomplishment message to the agent.

9. The task distribution server according to claim 7, wherein,

the receiving unit is further configured to, before the task distribution server sends the acquiring instruction to the agent to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data, receive a task assignment request sent from the agent;

and

the task distribution server further comprises a processing unit configured to determine whether there is a task to be allocated, and the sending unit is configured to, if it is determined that there is no task to be allocated, return a no task message to the agent to make the agent enter a sleep state.

10. The task distribution server according to claim 7, wherein,

the receiving unit is further configured to, before the task distribution server sends the acquiring instruction to the agent to instruct the agent to acquire the monitoring data, receive a pre-gathering message sent from the agent, wherein the pre-gathering message indicates that the agent is in an idle state, and

the task distribution server further comprises a processing unit configured to, after the task distribution server receives the pre-gathering message sent from the agent, determine that the agent is in the idle state.

11. The task distribution server according to claim 7, wherein the acquiring instruction comprises an identification of an agent to perform an acquisition, an acquiring index and a data transmission mode;

the task distribution server further comprises a processing unit configured to read the identification of the agent, the acquiring index and the data transmission mode from the acquiring instruction; and

the sending unit is configured to send the acquiring instruction to an agent corresponding to the identification and assign the acquiring index and the data transmission mode to the agent corresponding to the identification.

12. The task distribution server according to claim 11, wherein,

the receiving unit is configured to, after the task distribution server sends the acquiring instruction to the agent corresponding to the identification and assign the acquiring index and the data transmission mode to the agent corresponding to the identification, receive monitoring data which corresponds to the acquiring index and is sent in the data transmission mode by the agent corresponding to the identification, and

the sending unit is configured to send the monitoring data, which corresponds to the acquiring index and is sent in the data transmission mode, to the gathering device.

13. An agent, comprising a non-transitory storage configured to store units comprising:

a registration unit, configured to register at a task distribution server;

a receiving unit, configured to receive an acquiring instruction sent by the task distribution server, wherein the acquiring instruction is sent to the task distribution server by a gathering device and the acquiring instruction is configured to instruct the agent to acquire monitoring data; and

an acquisition unit, configured to acquire the monitoring data in response to the acquiring instruction.

14. The agent according to claim 13, wherein the registration unit is configured to register at the task distribution server by:

sending a registration request, an identification of the agent and an acquiring index supported by the agent to the task distribution server; and

receiving a registration accomplishment message returned from the task distribution server, to accomplish a registration at the task distribution server.

15. The agent according to claim 13, further comprising:

a sending unit, configured to, before the agent receives the acquiring instruction sent by the task distribution server, send a task assignment request to the task distribution server; and

a sleeping unit, configured to, after a no task message returned from the task distribution server is received, make the agent enter a sleep state, wherein the task distribution server returns the no task message to the agent if the task distribution server determines that there is no task to be allocated.

16. The agent according to claim 13, further comprising:

a sending unit, configured to, before the agent receives the acquiring instruction sent by the task distribution server, send a pre-gathering message to the task distribution server, wherein the pre-gathering message indicates that the agent is in an idle state.

17. The agent according to claim 13, wherein the acquiring instruction comprises an identification of an agent to perform an acquisition, an acquiring index and a data transmission mode;

the agent further comprises a processing unit configured to read the acquiring index and the data transmission mode from the acquiring instruction; and

the acquisition unit is configured to acquire monitoring data corresponding to the acquiring index and transmit the acquired monitoring data in the data transmission mode.