TRACKING USE OF A VIRTUALIZATION SERVICE ACCORDING TO GLOBALIZATION CHARACTERISTIC BASED USAGE

• US 20160277511A1
• Filed: 06/05/2015
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: FANG, WU S., LY, MICHAEL S., LIU, SU
• Granted Patent: US 10,671,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Tracking of data processing usage of a workload is initiated, within a virtualized environment, comprising one or more globalization characteristics, wherein the at least one globalization characteristic requires conversion by at least one globalization service managed by a virtualization service provider of the virtualized environment. The at least one globalization characteristic is detected. At least one usage metric of the data is tracked during data processing of the workload request. The globalization usage data is output comprising an identifier for the at least one application, an identifier for the at least one globalization characteristic, and the at least one usage metric to identify a particular amount of overhead during data processing based on the at least one globalization characteristic.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically tracking usage of a virtualized environment, comprising:

initiating tracking, by a service on a computer system, of data processing usage of a workload by at least one virtualized environment comprising at least one application of a plurality of applications operating on an operating system layer hosted on at least one platform from among a plurality of virtualized environments, the workload request specified with at least one globalization characteristic from among a plurality of globalization characteristics, the at least one globalization characteristic requiring conversion by at least one globalization service of a plurality of globalization services managed by a virtualization service provider of the plurality of virtualized environments during data processing, each of the plurality of globalization services requiring a separate amount of overhead during data processing;

detecting, by the service, the at least one globalization characteristic;

tracking, by the service, at least one usage metric of the data during data processing of the workload request;

outputting, by the service, globalization usage data comprising an identifier for the at least one application, an identifier for the at least one globalization characteristic, and the at least one usage metric to identify a particular amount of overhead during data processing based on the at least one globalization characteristic.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein initiating tracking, by a service, of data processing usage of a workload by at virtualization environment comprising at least one application of a plurality of applications operating on an operating system layer hosted on at least one platform further comprises:

initiating tracking, by the service comprising a tracking application interface, by a code set converter library for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the code set converter library.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein initiating tracking, by a service, of data processing usage of a workload by at virtualization environment comprising at least one application of a plurality of applications operating on an operating system layer hosted on at least one platform further comprises:

initiating tracking, by the service comprising a tracking application interface, by a message catalog handling application programming interface for the at least one globalization service called by the operating system layer, wherein the tracking application interface is integrated into the message catalog handling application programming interface.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

buffering, by the service, the identifier for the at least one globalization characteristic, the at least one usage metric, a start time when initiating tracking, and an end time when data processing is complete;

normalizing, by the service, the buffered identifier of the at least one globalization characteristic, the at least one usage metric, the start time, and the end time into a normalized globalization usage record according to at least one normalizing rule; and

accumulating, by the service, a plurality of normalized globalization usage records tracked during data processing of a plurality of workload requests, into a plurality of repositories according to a separate globalization characteristic of each of the plurality of normalized globalization usage records, each of the repositories categorized by a particular globalization characteristic of the plurality of globalization characteristics.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

calculating, by the service, at least one separate accumulated usage metric of the at least one usage metric from a selection of normalized globalization usage records from among the plurality of normalized globalization usage records according to a particular at least one globalization characteristic of the plurality of globalization characteristics, a particular operating system instance, and a particular application of the plurality of applications tracked with each of the selection of normalized globalization usage records;

creating, by the service, a table comprising each at least one separate accumulated usage metric specified according the particular at least one globalization characteristic, the particular operating system instance, and the particular application;

outputting, by the service, the table as the globalization usage data to at least one interface of the virtualization service provider.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

outputting, by the service, the globalization usage data to a billing service of the virtualization service provider for specifying a billing rate for the at least one usage metric according to the at least one globalization characteristic.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein tracking, by the service, at least one usage metric during data processing of the workload request further comprises:

tracking, by the service, the at least one usage metric comprising an amount of inbound data and an amount of outbound data during data processing of the workload request.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein tracking, by the service, at least one usage metric during data processing of the workload request further comprises:

tracking, by the service, the at least one usage metric comprising a start time prior to data processing of the workload request and an end time after data processing of the workload request.