System and method for monitoring application availability
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1. A method, in a data processing system, for monitoring availability of an application, comprising:
- measuring, in a deployed environment in which the application is running, one or more metrics associated with one or more resources utilized by the application, to thereby generate measured values for the one or more metrics;
analyzing the measured values to generate a range of normal operational metric values;
applying one or more generic percentiles, which may be applied to measurements of any of a number of different metrics and which define availability states of the application, to the range of normal operational metric values to thereby generate one or more availability conditions, wherein the generic percentiles are derived at least from the range of the normal operational metric values, and wherein the one or more availability conditions comprise structural conditions, capacity conditions, and behavioral conditions, and wherein the structural conditions include at least one of the application being present, the proper ports used by the application having listeners opened on them, a listener on the proper ports corresponds to the application, and a file system for the application is mounted; and
applying the one or more availability conditions to collected resource metrics associated with resources utilized by the application to thereby determine the availability of the application.
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The system and method observe the application processes, the structural resources they require, and the consumable resources they require from the running system itself. These observations are then used to derive minimum requirements for the resource requirement aspects of availability as well as derive criteria for normal behavioral conditions. These minimum requirements and normal behavioral conditions are then used to establish monitoring rules or conditions for monitoring the operation of the application to determine if availability of the application is degrading such that a notification needs to be sent to an administrator.
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1. A method, in a data processing system, for monitoring availability of an application, comprising:
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measuring, in a deployed environment in which the application is running, one or more metrics associated with one or more resources utilized by the application, to thereby generate measured values for the one or more metrics; analyzing the measured values to generate a range of normal operational metric values; applying one or more generic percentiles, which may be applied to measurements of any of a number of different metrics and which define availability states of the application, to the range of normal operational metric values to thereby generate one or more availability conditions, wherein the generic percentiles are derived at least from the range of the normal operational metric values, and wherein the one or more availability conditions comprise structural conditions, capacity conditions, and behavioral conditions, and wherein the structural conditions include at least one of the application being present, the proper ports used by the application having listeners opened on them, a listener on the proper ports corresponds to the application, and a file system for the application is mounted; and applying the one or more availability conditions to collected resource metrics associated with resources utilized by the application to thereby determine the availability of the application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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