System and method for editing active measurements in a client management tool

• US 7,194,533 B1
• Filed: 04/28/2000
• Issued: 03/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: DeLuca, Steve A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang; Paul H.
• Application Number:
  US09/561,442
• Time in Patent Office: 2,517 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/220, 709/226, 709223-224, 709/204, 709/205, 709/206, 709/225, 700/108, 710/19
• US Class Current: 709/224
• 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 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/091 Measuring contribution of individual network components to actual service level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

A system and method for editing active measurements in a client management tool are provided. One or more clients in a computer network measure a variety of attributes associated with the function of the client. A monitor process establishes and collects a subset of the client attributes to measure for client management. Without terminating the collection of the initial subset of client attributes, the monitor process establishes and begins collecting a modified subset of client attributes.

Claims

1. A method in a computer system for measuring one or more client attributes, the method comprising:

initiating a measurement of client attributes from at least one associated client, the client attributes comprising at least one of performance monitoring data and capacity planning data;

establishing a subset of the client attributes to be collected from the at least one associated client;

collecting the subset of client attributes from the at least one associated client;

without terminating the measurement of the client attributes, establishing a modified subset of the client attributes to be collected from the at least one associated client, the modified subset being established without requiring a polling action to the at least one associated client; and

collecting the modified subset of client attributes from the at least one associated client.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of collecting the subset of client attributes includes issuing at least one management data template corresponding to the subset of client attributes.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of collecting the modified subset of client attributes includes issuing at least one management data template corresponding to the modified subset of client attributes.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the collecting steps include collecting data from one or more client counters.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the collecting steps include collecting data from one or more client trace logs.

6. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the steps recited in claim 1.

7. A computer system having a processor, a memory and an operating environment, the computer system operable to perform the steps recited in claim 1.

18. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein establishing the modified subset of the client attributes deletes one or more client attribute from the subset of client attributes but measurements associated with the deleted one or more client attribute are collected.

19. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the modified subset of the client attributes includes client attributes having different priority levels.

8. A method of communicating between a monitor process and a client process, the method comprising:

issuing, by the monitor process, a first set of data indicative of client attributes to be measured in at least one associated client, the client attributes comprising at least one of performance monitoring data and capacity planning data;

receiving, by the client process, the first set of data;

measuring, by the client process, attributes responsive to the first set of data in the at least one associated client;

issuing, by the monitor process, a second set of data indicative of a replacement set of client attributes to be measured from the at least one associated client, the replacement set of client attributes being generated without requiring a polling action to the at least one associated client;

receiving, by the client process, the second set of data; and

measuring, by the client process, attributes responsive to the second set of data in the at least one associated client.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the first and second sets of data include at least one client management template corresponding to the client attributes.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the measuring steps include monitoring one or more client counters.

11. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the measuring steps include monitoring one or more client trace logs.

12. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the steps recited in claim 8.

13. A computer system having a processor, a memory and an operating environment, the computer system operable to perform the steps recited in claim 8.

14. A method for editing the measurement of one or more client process attributes, the method comprising:

generating a first set of client process attributes to be collected from at least one associated client, the first set of client process attributes comprising at least one of performance monitoring data and capacity planning data;

transmitting the first set of client attributes to the client process;

generating a second set of client attributes to be collected from the at least one associated client to replace the first set of client attributes, the second set of client process attributes comprising at least one of performance monitoring data and capacity planning data, the second set of client attributes being generated without requiring a polling action to the at least one associated client; and

seamlessly replacing the first set of client attributes with the second set of client attributes for measuring client process attributes in the at least one associated client.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the steps of generating the first and second set of client attributes include generating at least one client management template corresponding to the client attributes.

16. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the steps recited in claim 14.

17. A computer system having a processor, a memory and an operating environment, the computer system operable to perform the steps recited in claim 14.