METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ADJUST RESOURCES AND MONITORING CONFIGURATION OF OBJECTS IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM

• US 20180367434A1
• Filed: 06/20/2017
• Published: 12/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kushmerick, Nicholas, Movsisyan, Vardan, Flanders, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 11,405,300 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0897 by horizontal or vertical scaling of resources, or by migrating entities, e.g. virtual resources or entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/14 using software, i.e. software packages network security related monitoring H04L63/1408
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• 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: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties

Abstract

Methods and systems automatically adjusting resources and monitoring configurations of objects of a distributed computing system in response to changes to application programs. Methods search event messages for information indicating a change in execution of an object. The information is used to determine resource allocation rules of infrastructure resources by and a monitoring configuration for the object. Expected impacts on the infrastructure resource are determined from the rules. When an expected impact is greater than an associated impact threshold, use of the infrastructure resources may be adjusted to accommodate the changes. The adjustments include scaling up or down the infrastructure resources. When the object is a virtual object, the virtual object may be migrated from one server computer to another server computer within the distributed computer system. The monitoring configuration is used to adjust tools that monitor the objects of the distributed computing system.

Claims

1. A method stored in one or more data-storage devices and executed using one or more processors of a management server computer of a distributed computing system to adjust resources and monitoring configuration of objects in the distributed computing system, the method comprising:

identifying information at a monitoring tool of the distributed computing system, the information indicating a change to an object of the distributed computing system;

determining an expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on the information;

determining an expected monitoring configuration for the object and the monitoring tool based on the information;

adjusting use of infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system to accommodate the change to the object based on the expected impact; and

adjusting a monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object based on the expected monitoring configuration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the information comprises identifying non-parametric text, phrases or event types of event messages generated by event sources of the object that indicate one of installation of an application program at the object, enable services provided by an application program located at the object, removal of an application program from the object, disable services provided by an application program located on the object, and restructure an application program running in the object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises searching a database of application resource allocation rules for a rule of expected use of infrastructure resources in based on the information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the expected monitoring configuration comprises searching a database of monitoring configuration rules for an expected monitoring configuration based on the information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the expected impact on the infrastructure resources comprises:

when rules are not available for the application program,

collecting metric data of infrastructure resources used by the virtual object before the change in the application program;

collecting metric data of the infrastructure resources used by the virtual object after the change in the application program;

compute rules as a difference between the metric data collected before and after the change in the virtual object; and

storing the rule in a database of resource allocation rules.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining an expected impact on the infrastructure resource based on the rule comprises computing an expected impact on the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on current use of the infrastructure resource and the expected use of the infrastructure resource.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change;

scaling up infrastructure resources available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is installed or enabled; and

scaling down infrastructure resource available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is removed, disabled or stopped.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change; and

migrating the object from one server computer to another server computer of distributed computing system, when the object is a virtual resource.

9. The method of claim 1, adjusting the monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object comprises:

plugging in a content pack to the monitoring tool, the content pack associated with change to the virtual object; and

reconfiguring a log monitoring agent to include a log path and a log parse associated with the change to the object.

10. A system to adjust resources and monitoring configuration of objects in the distributed computing system in a distributed computing system, the system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more data-storage devices; and

machine-readable instructions stored in the one or more data-storage devices that when executed using the one or more processors controls the system to carry out

identifying information at a monitoring tool of the distributed computing system, the information indicating a change to an object of the distributed computing system;

determining an expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on the information;

determining an expected monitoring configuration for the object and the monitoring tool based on the information;

adjusting use of infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system to accommodate the change to the object based on the expected impact; and

adjusting a monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object based on the expected monitoring configuration.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein identifying the information comprises identifying non-parametric text, phrases or event types of event messages generated by event sources of the object that indicate one of installation of an application program at the object, enable services provided by an application program located at the object, removal of an application program from the object, disable services provided by an application program located on the object, and restructure an application program running in the object.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises searching a database of application resource allocation rules for a rule of expected use of infrastructure resources in based on the information.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the expected monitoring configuration comprises searching a database of monitoring configuration rules for an expected monitoring configuration based on the information.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the expected impact on the infrastructure resources comprises:

when rules are not available for the application program,

collecting metric data of infrastructure resources used by the virtual object before the change in the application program;

collecting metric data of the infrastructure resources used by the virtual object after the change in the application program;

compute rules as a difference between the metric data collected before and after the change in the virtual object; and

storing the rule in a database of resource allocation rules.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein determining an expected impact on the infrastructure resource based on the rule comprises computing an expected impact on the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on current use of the infrastructure resource and the expected use of the infrastructure resource.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change;

scaling up infrastructure resources available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is installed or enabled; and

scaling down infrastructure resource available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is removed, disabled or stopped.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change; and

migrating the object from one server computer to another server computer of distributed computing system, when the object is a virtual resource.

18. The system of claim 10, adjusting the monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object comprises:

plugging in a content pack to the monitoring tool, the content pack associated with change to the virtual object; and

reconfiguring a log monitoring agent to include a log path and a log parse associated with the change to the object.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with machine-readable instructions that implement a method carried out by one or more processors of a computer system to perform the operations of identifying information at a monitoring tool of the distributed computing system, the information indicating a change to an object of the distributed computing system;

determining an expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on the information;

determining an expected monitoring configuration for the object and the monitoring tool based on the information;

adjusting use of infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system to accommodate the change to the object based on the expected impact; and

adjusting a monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object based on the expected monitoring configuration.

20. The medium of claim 19, wherein identifying the information comprises identifying non-parametric text, phrases or event types of event messages generated by event sources of the object that indicate one of installation of an application program at the object, enable services provided by an application program located at the object, removal of an application program from the object, disable services provided by an application program located on the object, and restructure an application program running in the object.

21. The medium of claim 19, wherein determining the expected impact on infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises searching a database of application resource allocation rules for a rule of expected use of infrastructure resources in based on the information.

22. The medium of claim 19, wherein determining the expected monitoring configuration comprises searching a database of monitoring configuration rules for an expected monitoring configuration based on the information.

23. The medium of claim 19, wherein determining the expected impact on the infrastructure resources comprises:

when rules are not available for the application program,

collecting metric data of infrastructure resources used by the virtual object before the change in the application program;

collecting metric data of the infrastructure resources used by the virtual object after the change in the application program;

compute rules as a difference between the metric data collected before and after the change in the virtual object; and

storing the rule in a database of resource allocation rules.

24. The medium of claim 19, wherein determining an expected impact on the infrastructure resource based on the rule comprises computing an expected impact on the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system based on current use of the infrastructure resource and the expected use of the infrastructure resource.

25. The medium of claim 19, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change;

scaling up infrastructure resources available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is installed or enabled; and

scaling down infrastructure resource available to the object, when the object is a virtual object and an application program or service supported by the object is removed, disabled or stopped.

26. The medium of claim 19, wherein adjusting the infrastructure resources of the distributed computing system comprises:

generating an alert identifying the infrastructure resource as expected to be impacted by the change; and

migrating the object from one server computer to another server computer of distributed computing system, when the object is a virtual resource.

27. The medium of claim 19, adjusting the monitoring configuration of the monitoring tool and the object comprises:

plugging in a content pack to the monitoring tool, the content pack associated with change to the virtual object; and

reconfiguring a log monitoring agent to include a log path and a log parse associated with the change to the object.