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Monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment

  • US 7,870,244 B2
  • Filed: 06/25/2003
  • Issued: 01/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for monitoring the performance of applications running on a plurality of servers in a distributed computing environment, comprising:

  • providing a user with at least two choices as to a level of monitoring, receiving from a user selected information for monitoring, wherein the selected information for monitoring includes user selection of one of a level of monitoring and particular features to be monitored, wherein each level of monitoring provides a different level of detail, wherein the selected information for a first level of monitoring comprises request level data and server level data, wherein the selected information for a second level of monitoring includes the selected information for the first level and API level data, wherein the API level data includes data regarding throughput of a particular CPU and functionality to permit the user to provide a soft cancel of a request, and wherein the selected information for a third level of monitoring includes the selected information for the second level of monitoring and method level data, wherein the user is provided with an option of changing dynamically between the second level and the third level, receiving from the user identification of a schedule for monitoring of the selected information, wherein the schedule consists of a group of schedule records, each of which is a combination of a staff date and time and a monitoring level, wherein the schedule define times for a monitoring level to change, monitoring application performance in accordance with the selected information and in accordance with the identified schedule, wherein the monitoring commences with a first schedule record, wherein the monitoring changes when a current time is a start time and date of another schedule record, and wherein the monitoring continues through successive schedule records, and making monitored performance information available to the user in accordance with the selected information, wherein the selected information includes availability management including information as to whether a particular application is running on a particular server, system resources including information as to an amount of available memory and a number of available connections, and basic request data including a number of requests being made and a number of requests being completed.

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