System and method for monitoring program code

• US 7,577,731 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2003
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Petrov, Miroslav R., Frey, Gregor K., Kautzleben, Reinhold, Weller, Joerg
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee; John
• Assistant Examiner(s): MADAMBA, GLENFORD J
• Application Number:
  US10/748,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20040194066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,058 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00957 Compiling jobs, e.g. for batch processing H04N1/3208 takes precedence; program code compilation G06F8/41
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3271 Printing or stamping

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system are provided for monitoring of system resources. According to one embodiment, a monitor server may be used to monitor system resources, to collect monitoring data associated with the resources, and to provide the monitoring data to a destination. The monitor server may include a Java Management Extensions (JMX)-based monitor server. Further, a managed bean server having a registry of managed beans may be coupled with the monitor server to facilitate the monitor server to monitor the resources.

Claims

1. A Java monitoring architecture (JMA), comprising:

one or more machine-implemented monitor servers to monitor resources, collect monitoring data associated with the resources, and provide the monitoring data to one or more destinations, wherein each monitor server includes a Java Management Extensions (JMX)-based monitor server; and

one or more managed bean servers coupled with the one or more monitor servers, each managed bean server having a registry of associated managed beans to facilitate the one or more monitor servers to monitor the resources, each managed bean server further having a container to hold the managed beans, the managed beans to access management applications to manage the resources that are being monitored, the managing of the resources including one or more of maintaining history of the resources, and providing alerts if a resource reaches a critical state such that the resource is enabled or disabled as necessitated, the resource including a parameter, an application, and a component.

2. The JMA of claim 1, wherein the one or more monitor servers are further to receive a request for the monitoring of the resources from the one or more destinations, and to monitor the resources in response to the request.

3. The JMA of claim 1, wherein the resources include Java resources associated with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine.

4. The JMA of claim 1, wherein the one or more managed bean servers are further to couple the one or more monitor servers with the one or more destinations.

5. The JMA of claim 4, wherein the one or more destinations include one or more of a computing center management system (CCMS), one or more administrative tools, and one or more third party tools.

6. The JMA of claim 5, wherein the one or more administrative tools are coupled with the one or more monitor servers and the one or more managed bean servers via an administrative service interface, the one or more administrative tools include a monitor viewer to display the monitoring data.

7. The JMA of claim 6, wherein the monitor viewer includes one or more of a visual administrator monitor viewer and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based monitor viewer.

8. The JMA of claim 5, wherein the one or more monitor servers are coupled with the one or more third party tools via an interface including a Managed Enterprise Java Bean interface, wherein the one or more third party tools include a file system to temporarily store the monitoring data.

9. The JMA of claim 1, further comprises a shared memory coupled with the one or more monitor servers and the CCMS, the shared memory including contents of the monitoring data and the CCMS.

10. A method, comprising:

monitoring resources via one or more monitor servers, wherein each monitor server having a Java Management Extensions (JMX)-based monitor server, the resources including Java resources, wherein the one or more monitor servers are coupled with one or more managed bean servers, each managed bean server having a registry of associated managed beans to facilitate the one or more monitor servers to monitor the resources, each managed bean server further having a container to hold the managed beans, the managed beans to access management applications to manage the resources that are being monitored, the managing of the resources including one or more of maintaining history of the resources, and providing alerts if a resource reaches a critical state such that the resource is enabled or disabled as necessitated, the resource including a parameter, an application, and a component;

collecting monitoring data associated with the resources; and

providing the monitoring data to one or more destinations.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a request to monitor the resources from the one or more destinations;

receiving the monitoring data at the one or more destinations; and

displaying the monitored data using a monitor viewer at the one or more destinations.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the monitoring data includes at least one of the following about the monitored resources:

general information, statistics, predictions, and history.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the resources include one or more of a kernel, server components, network connections, memory consumption, threads, classloaders, database connections, database transactions, HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) cache, Java Messaging Service (JMS) queries and topics, and sessions.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the server components include one or more of libraries, interfaces, and services.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more monitor servers are located, locally or remotely, at one or more Java virtual machines.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more destinations include one or more of a computing center management system (CCMS), one or more administrative tools, and one or more third party tools.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more administrative tools include a monitor viewer including one or more of a visual administrator monitor viewer and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based monitor viewer.

18. A system, comprising:

one or more machine-implemented monitor servers to monitor resources, collect monitoring data associated with the resources, and provide the monitoring data to one or more destinations, wherein each monitor server includes a Java Management Extensions (JMX)-based monitor server;

one or more managed bean servers coupled with the one or more monitor servers, each managed bean server having a registry of associated managed beans to facilitate the one or more monitor servers to monitor the resources, each managed bean server further having a container to hold the managed beans, the managed beans to access management applications to manage the resources that are being monitored, the managing of the resources including one or more of maintaining history of the resources, and providing alerts if a resource reaches a critical state such that the resource is enabled or disabled as necessitated, the resource including a parameter, an application, and a component; and

the one or more destinations coupled with the one or more monitor servers, the one or more destinations to receive the monitoring data, and to display the monitoring data via a monitor viewer.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the one or more monitor servers to receive a request to monitor the resources from the one or more destinations, and to monitor the resources in response to the request.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the one or more destinations include one or more administrative tools having the monitor viewer, and one or more third party tools having a file system to temporarily store the monitoring data.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the one or more destinations further include a computing center management system (CCMS) to originate the request, and to receive the monitoring data via a CCMS agent.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the resources include Java resources associated with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine.

23. The system of claim 18, wherein the resources include one or more of a kernel, server components, network connections, memory consumption, threads, classloaders, database connections, database transactions, Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) cache, Java Messaging Service (JMS) queries and topics, and sessions.

24. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:

monitor resources via one or more monitor servers, wherein each monitor server having a Java Management Extensions (JMX)-based monitor server, the resources including Java resources, wherein the one or more monitor servers are coupled with one or more managed bean servers, each managed bean server having a registry of associated managed beans to facilitate the one or more monitor servers to monitor the resources, each managed bean server further having a container to hold the managed beans, the managed beans to access management applications to manage the resources that are being monitored, the managing of the resources including one or more of maintaining history of the resources, and providing alerts if a resource reaches a critical state such that the resource is enabled or disabled as necessitated, the resource including a parameter, an application, and a component;

collect monitoring data associated with the resources; and

provide the monitoring data to one or more destinations.

25. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the instructions which, when executed, further cause the machine to:

receive a request to monitor the resources, the request is received from the one or more destinations;

receive the monitoring data at the one or more destinations; and

display the monitored data via a monitor viewer at the one or more destinations.

26. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the monitoring data includes at least one of the following about the monitored resources:

general information, statistics, predictions, and history.

27. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the resources include one or more of a kernel, server components, network connections, memory consumption, threads, classloaders, database connections, database transactions, HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) cache, Java Messaging Service (JMS) queries and topics, and sessions.

28. The machine-readable medium of claim 27, wherein the server components include at least one of the following:

libraries, interfaces, and services.

29. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the one or more monitor servers are located, locally or remotely, at one or more Java virtual machines.

30. The machine-readable medium of claim 25, wherein the one or more destinations include one or more of a computing center management system (CCMS), one or more administrative tools, and one or more third party tools.

31. The machine-readable medium of claim 30, wherein the one or more administrative tools include a monitor viewer including one or more of a visual administrator monitor viewer and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based monitor viewer.