MANAGEMENT SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD OF MANAGEMENT SERVER

• US 20150172148A1
• Filed: 12/12/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: YASUDA, Yoshiko, ISHIDA, Haruhisa, OOTA, Tomoya
• Granted Patent: US 9,647,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• 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 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0859 by keeping history of different configuration generations or by rolling back to previous configuration versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A management server assigns identifiers unique to a service system to components used to build the service system, and records connections between the components assigned the identifiers associated with a time of the building the service system. When detecting a change in the connections of the components included in the service system, the management server records the changed connection associated with a time of the change of the connection, collects monitoring information indicating operation conditions of the components and monitoring times from a data center, and records the monitoring information associated with the monitoring times. When receiving information designating a time from the management terminal, the management server identifies and outputs the configuration of service system and the monitoring information at the designated time based on the identifiers of the components associated with the designated time.

Claims

1. A management server for managing a service system virtually built by using a plurality of components provided by one or more data centers, the management server being connected with a management terminal and the one or more data centers and comprising:

a configuration management module;

a monitoring management module; and

an output module,

wherein, in building the service system, the configuration management module is configured to;

assign identifiers unique to the service system to components connected via a network among the plurality of components used to build the service system; and

record each of the identifiers associated with connection information indicating a connection with another component assigned one of the identifiers and a time of the building of the service system,

wherein the configuration management module is configured to, upon detection of a change in the components included in the service system or a change in the connections of the components, record the identifier of the changed component associated with connection information indicating the changed connection and a time of the change of the connection,

wherein the monitoring management module is configured to;

collect monitoring information indicating operation conditions of the components assigned the identifiers and monitoring times, which are times of creation of the monitoring information, from the one or more data centers; and

record the monitoring information associated with the monitoring times, and

wherein the output module is configured to, upon receipt of information designating a time from the management terminal, identify and output connection information and monitoring information on the service system as of the designated time based on the identifiers of the components associated with the designated time.

2. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the output module is configured to display an image indicating the configuration of the service system as of the designated time and the monitoring information as of the designated time in a single screen of the management terminal based on the identified connection information and identified monitoring information.

3. The management server according to claim 2, wherein the image indicating the configuration of the service system is expressed by a graph structure in which nodes represent the components and edges represent the connections between components.

4. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring information includes performance information, log information, and event information.

5. The management server according to claim 1, wherein the output module is configured to:

display a graph image showing variation in performance of the components along a time axis based on the monitoring information on an screen of the management terminal; and

identify and output, upon receipt of information designating a time corresponding to a point on the time axis, the connection information and monitoring information on the service system as of the designated time based on the identifies of the components associated with the designated time.

6. The management server according to claim 1, wherein, in building the service system, the configuration management module is configured to:

receive design information to build the service system from the management terminal; and

create the connection information based on the received design information.

7. The management server according to claim 1, further comprising a building module,

wherein the building module is configured to:

deploy agents to the components connected via the network; and

set the identifiers of the components in which the agents are deployed to the agents, and

wherein the monitoring management module is configured to receive the identifiers set to the agents from the agents together with the monitoring information.

8. The management server according to claim 1,

wherein the configuration management module is configured to:

assign identifiers unique to the management server to a plurality of service systems; and

record the identifiers of the plurality of components included in each of the plurality of service systems associated with the identifier of the corresponding service system, and

wherein the output module is configured to, upon receipt of information designating the identifier of a service system and a time, identify and output the identifiers of components and connection information of the components associated with the designated time among the identifiers of the components and connection information of the components included in the service system identified with the designated identifier.

9. A control method of a management server for managing a service system virtually built by using a plurality of components provided by one or more data centers, the management server being connected with a management terminal and the one or more data centers, the control method comprising:

assigning, by the management server building the service system, identifiers unique to the service system to components connected via a network among the plurality of components used to build the service system and further recording each of the identifiers associated with connection information indicating a connection with another component assigned one of the identifiers and a time of the building the service system;

recording, by the management server that has detected a change in the components included in the service system or a change in the connections of the components, the identifier of the changed component associated with connection information indicating the changed connection and a time of the change of the connection;

collecting, by the management server, monitoring information indicating operation conditions of the components assigned the identifiers and monitoring times, which are times of creation of the monitoring information, from the one or more data centers;

recording, by the management server, the monitoring information associated with the monitoring times; and

identifying and outputting, by the management server that has received information designating a time from the management terminal, connection information and monitoring information on the service system as of the designated time based on the identifiers of the components associated with the designated time.

10. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, further comprising displaying, by the management server, an image indicating the configuration of the service system as of the designated time and the monitoring information as of the designated time in a single screen of the management terminal based on the identified connection information and identified monitoring information.

11. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, wherein the monitoring information includes performance information, log information, and event information.

12. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, further comprising:

displaying, by the management server, a graph image showing variation in performance of the components along a time axis based on the monitoring information on an screen of the management terminal; and

identifying and outputting, by the management server that has received information designating a time corresponding to a point on the time axis, the connection information and monitoring information on the service system as of the designated time based on the identifies of the components associated with the designated time.

13. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the management server building the service system, design information to build the service system from the management terminal and further creating the connection information based on the received design information.

14. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, further comprising:

deploying, by the management server, agents to the components connected via the network;

setting, by the management server, the identifiers of the components in which the agents are deployed to the agents; and

receiving, by the management server, the identifiers set to the agents from the agents together with the monitoring information.

15. The control method of the management server according to claim 9, further comprising:

assigning, by the management server, identifiers unique to the management server to a plurality of service systems;

recording, by the management server, the identifiers of the plurality of components included in each of the plurality of service systems associated with the identifier of the corresponding service system; and

identifying and outputting, by the management server that has received information designating the identifier of a service system and a time, the identifiers of components and connection information of the components associated with the designated time among the identifiers of the components and connection information of the components included in the service system identified with the designated identifier.