SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTITENANT-AWARE CONSOLE FOR USE IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150372883A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: KONKUS, LOREN, LAM, ANISSA, UPPALA, SUMA SRI, KRISHNAN, SRINIVAS
• Granted Patent: US 10,027,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• 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

Described herein is a system and method for providing and administering a partitionable environment for operating application software. The environment is provided together with a plurality of deployable resources usable within the environment and one or more resource group templates. Each resource group template defines a grouping of the deployable resources within a domain. An administration console is usable to create and configure one or more partitions within the domain, with each partition providing an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain. The administration console can be set to display the one or more partitions and enable creation and configuration of specific artifacts within the one or more partitions.

Claims

1. A system for providing and administering a partitionable environment for operating application software, comprising:

one or more computers, including the partitionable environment executing thereon, together with

a plurality of deployable resources usable within the environment, and

one or more resource group templates, wherein each resource group template defines a grouping of the plurality of deployable resources within a domain of the environment; and

an administration console usable to create and configure one or more partitions within the domain, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and

wherein the administration console displays the one or more partitions and enables creation and configuration of specific artifacts within the one or more partitions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the partitionable environment is one of an application server environment and a cloud environment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the administration console enables creation and configuration of one or more resource groups within the one or more partitions, wherein at least one of the one or more resource groups references a resource group template from the one or more resource group templates.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the administration console enables creation and configuration of one or more resource groups within the one or more partitions, wherein at least one of the one or more resource groups does not reference a resource group template from the one or more resource group templates.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the partitionable environment includes two or more domains,

wherein each resource group template defines a grouping of the plurality of deployable resources within the two or more domains, and

wherein the administration console is usable to create and configure one or more partitions within each of the two or more domains.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of deployable resources comprises one or more partition-aware resources, and one or more partition-unaware resources.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more resource group templates is a package of one or more deployments and supporting resource configurations.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the administration console is usable to override one or more supporting resource configurations of a resource group template referenced by a resource group.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more partitions are each configurable to be partially administered internally to the one or more partitions.

10. A method for providing and administering a partitionable environment for operating application software, comprising:

providing the environment together with

a plurality of deployable resources usable within the environment, and

one or more resource group templates, wherein each resource group template defines a grouping of the plurality of deployable resources within a domain of the environment; and

providing an administration console usable to create and configure one or more partitions within the domain, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and

wherein the administration console displays the one or more partitions and enables creation and configuration of specific artifacts within the one or more partitions.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the environment is one of an application server environment and a cloud environment.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the administration console enables creation and configuration of one or more resource groups within the one or more partitions, wherein at least one of the one or more resource groups references a resource group template from the one or more resource group templates.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the administration console enables creation and configuration of one or more resource groups within the one or more partitions, wherein at least one of the one or more resource groups does not reference a resource group template from the one or more resource group templates.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the environment includes two or more domains;

and

wherein each resource group template defines a grouping of the plurality of deployable resources within the two or more domains, and

wherein the administration console is usable to create and configure one or more partitions within each of the two or more domains.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more resource group templates is a package of one or more deployments and supporting resource configurations.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more resource group templates is a package of one or more deployments and supporting resource configurations.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the administration console is usable to override one or more supporting resource configurations of a resource group template referenced by a resource group.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more partitions are each configurable to be partially administered internally to the one or more partitions.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage 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 a partitionable environment for operating application software together with a plurality of deployable resources usable within the environment,

one or more resource group templates, wherein each resource group template defines a grouping of the plurality of deployable resources within a domain of the environment, and

providing an administration console usable to create and configure one or more partitions within the domain, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and

wherein the administration console displays the one or more partitions and enables creation and configuration of specific artifacts within the one or more partitions.