AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTION OF FLOW OF CONTROL IN A DISTRIBUTED VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM

• US 20160173646A1
• Filed: 12/11/2014
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kaviani, Nima, Austel, Paula K., Maximilien, Eugene M., Rouvellou, Isabelle M., Silva-Lepe, Ignacio
• Granted Patent: US 10,057,331 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45591 Monitoring or debugging support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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 distributed component software system that includes an analysis server that: (i) receives a set of messages, where each message is sent between components of a distributed component software system (DCSS), and where each message includes an identification of a respective source component, an identification of a respective target component and respective message content; (ii) for each message of the set of received messages, resolves the respective source component; (iii) for each message of the set of received messages, resolves the respective source component; (iv) determines a sequence of the plurality of messages; and (v) generates a human-understandable abstract corresponding to the set of received messages based upon the respective message sources, the respective message targets, the respective message content and the sequence of the set of received messages.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by an analysis server, a plurality of messages, where each message of the plurality of messages is sent between components of a distributed component software system (DCSS), and where each message includes an identification of a respective source component, an identification of a respective target component and respective message content;

for each message of the plurality of messages, resolving, by the analysis server, the respective source component;

determining, by the analysis server, a sequence of the plurality of messages; and

generating, by the analysis server, a human-understandable abstract corresponding to the plurality of messages based upon the respective message sources, the respective message targets, the respective message content and the sequence of the plurality of messages.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

presenting the abstract to a human user.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

saving the abstract in machine readable form.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein each message of the plurality of messages is in a respective message communication protocol of a plurality of message communication protocols, the method further comprising:

determining, by the analysis server, the respective message communication protocol for each message of the plurality of messages.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of messages is a first plurality of messages, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the analysis server, a second plurality of messages; and

filtering, by the analysis server and based on a set of filtration rule(s), the second plurality of messages to form the first plurality of messages, where the first plurality of messages includes less than all messages of the second plurality of messages.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating, by the analysis server, a message template based on the plurality of messages.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining, by the analysis server, message pattern changes based, at least in part, on the plurality of messages.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the DCSS is a distributed virtualization platform (DVP).

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

augmenting, by a first injected code snippet running on a first component of the DCSS, raw data of a first message of the plurality of messages with abstract information related to preparation of the human-understandable abstract; and

sending, by the first component of the DCSS, the first message to the analysis server.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

injecting the first injected code snippet into a set of code run by the first component.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon:

first program instructions programmed to receive, by an analysis server, a plurality of messages, where each message of the plurality of messages is sent between components of a distributed component software system (DCSS), and where each message includes an identification of a respective source component, an identification of a respective target component and respective message content;

second program instructions programmed to, for each message of the plurality of messages, resolve, by the analysis server, the respective source component;

third program instructions programmed to determine, by the analysis server, a sequence of the plurality of messages; and

fourth program instructions programmed to generate, by the analysis server, a human-understandable abstract corresponding to the plurality of messages based upon the respective message sources, the respective message targets, the respective message content and the sequence of the plurality of messages.

12. The product of claim 11 wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to present the abstract to a human user.

13. The product of claim 11 wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to save the abstract in machine readable form.

14. The product of claim 11 wherein each message of the plurality of messages is in a respective message communication protocol of a plurality of message communication protocols, the product wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to determine, by the analysis server, the respective message communication protocol for each message of the plurality of messages.

15. The product of claim 11 wherein the plurality of messages is a first plurality of messages, the product wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to receive, by the analysis server, a second plurality of messages; and

sixth program instructions programmed to filter, by the analysis server and based on a set of filtration rule(s), the second plurality of messages to form the first plurality of messages, where the first plurality of messages includes less than all messages of the second plurality of messages.

16. The product of claim 11 wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to generate, by the analysis server, a message template based on the plurality of messages.

17. The product of claim 11 wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to determine, by the analysis server, message pattern changes based, at least in part, on the plurality of messages.

18. The product of claim 11 wherein the medium has further stored thereon:

fifth program instructions programmed to resolve abstract information from at least some of the plurality of messages, with the abstract information having been generated by injected code snippet(s) located at the component(s) that sent the respective messages of the plurality of messages;

wherein the fourth program instructions are further programmed to generate the human-understandable abstract based, at least in part on the abstract information.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein the program instructions further comprise:

fifth program instructions programmed to resolve abstract information from at least some of the plurality of messages, with the abstract information having been generated by injected code snippet(s) located at the component(s) that sent the respective messages of the plurality of messages;

wherein the fourth program instructions are further programmed to generate the human-understandable abstract based, at least in part on the abstract information.

19. A computer system comprising:

a processor(s) set; and

a computer readable storage medium;

wherein;

the processor set is structured, located, connected and/or programmed to run program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium; and

the program instructions include;

first program instructions programmed to receive, by an analysis server, a plurality of messages, where each message of the plurality of messages is sent between components of a distributed component software system (DCSS), and where each message includes an identification of a respective source component, an identification of a respective target component and respective message content,

second program instructions programmed to, for each message of the plurality of messages, resolve, by the analysis server, the respective source component,

third program instructions programmed to determine, by the analysis server, a sequence of the plurality of messages, and

fourth program instructions programmed to generate, by the analysis server, a human-understandable abstract corresponding to the plurality of messages based upon the respective message sources, the respective message targets, the respective message content and the sequence of the plurality of messages.