Architecture and method for monitoring system resources within an enterprise network

• US 8,166,152 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2003
• Issued: 04/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Frey, Gregor K., Opgenorth, Juergen, Petrov, Miroslav R., Delcheva, Sylvia J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US10/749,086
• Time in Patent Office: 3,038 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/201, 709/202, 707/10, 707/200, 707/204
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3093 Configuration details thereof, e.g. installation, enabling, spatial arrangement of the probes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system are provided for monitoring of system resources. According to one embodiment, managed beans may be provided to management applications. The managed beans may be registered with a managed bean server. The managed bean server along with a monitoring server may be used to monitor the resources. Monitoring data may be collected from monitoring of the resources, and may then be provided to the management applications.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

registering a plurality of managed beans with a managed bean server at a runtime system of each of a plurality of application servers of a clustered computer system, the plurality of managed beans associated with a plurality of Java Management Extension (JMX) monitors, the plurality of JMX monitors managed by a single monitoring server operating within the clustered computer system;

monitoring system resources via the plurality of managed beans, the plurality of managed beans to collect monitoring data relating to the system resources;

providing the monitoring data to the plurality of JMX monitors such that each managed bean of the plurality of managed beans is to provide a portion of the monitoring data to its associated JMX monitor of the plurality of JMX monitors;

collecting the monitoring data, via the single monitoring server, from the JMX monitors; and

displaying the monitoring data via a display device coupled with the clustered computer system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the system resources include Java resources associated with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine, or Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) resources associated with an ABAP engine.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the system resources include one or more of kernel, services, interfaces, libraries, and sessions.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises a monitor viewing system including a monitor viewer having one or more of a customized visual administrator monitor viewer, a Web-based monitor viewer, and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based monitor viewer.

5. The method of claim 1, furthering including connecting the monitor server to a management application through a distributed services level interface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the connecting to the management application includes communication via the distributed services level interface using at least one of a protocol adapter or a connector;

wherein the protocol adapter listens for incoming messages constructed in a particular protocol and the connector includes two components, a first component on the bean server and a second component on the management application.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the management application includes at least one of:

a computer center management system;

a file system;

or a visual administration application.

8. A system comprising:

a computer system including a plurality of application servers and a monitoring server, each of the application servers to;

register a plurality of managed beans with a managed bean server within the application servers, the plurality of managed beans being registered to serve as a single point manager for monitoring system resources associated with the application servers, the plurality of managed beans associated with a plurality of Java Management Extension (JMX) monitors, the plurality of JMX monitors managed by the monitoring server operating within the computer system;

monitor the system resources via the single point manager, the single point manager to collect monitoring data related to the system resources;

providing the monitoring data to the plurality of JMX monitors such that each managed bean of the plurality of managed beans being represented as the single point manager to provide a portion of the monitoring data to its associated JMX monitor of the plurality of JMX monitors; and

the monitoring server to collect the monitoring data from the plurality of application servers and to display the monitoring data via a display device coupled with the computer system over a network.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the display device comprises a monitor viewing system including a monitor viewer having one or more of a customized visual administrator monitor viewer, a Web-based monitor viewer, and a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based monitor viewer.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the system resources include Java resources associated with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine, or Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) resources with an ABAP engine.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the network comprises one or more of a wide area network, a local area network, a metropolitan area network, an intranet, and the Internet.

12. The system of claim 8, including a client computer system communicatively coupled to the computer system and running a management application to receive the monitoring data;

wherein the management application receives the monitoring data from the computer system over a distributed services interface to the monitoring server.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the management application includes at least one of:

a computer center management system;

a file system;

or a visual administration application.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the distributed services interface uses at least one of a protocol adapter or a connector for communication between the management application and the monitoring server;

wherein the protocol adapter listens for incoming messages constructed in a particular protocol and the connector includes two components, a first component on the bean server and a second component on the management application.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instruction which, when executed, cause a machine to:

register a plurality of managed beans with a managed bean server at a runtime system of each of a plurality of application servers of a clustered computer system, the plurality of managed beans associated with a plurality of Java Management Extension (JMX) monitors, the plurality of JMX monitors managed by a single monitoring server operating within the clustered computer system;

monitor the system resources via the plurality of managed beans, the plurality of managed beans to collect monitoring data relating to the system resources;

providing the monitoring data to the plurality of JMX monitors such that each managed bean of the plurality of managed beans is to provide a portion of the monitoring data to its associated JMX monitor of the plurality of JMX monitors;

collect the monitoring data, via the single monitoring server, from the JMX monitors; and

display the monitoring data via a display device coupled with the clustered computer system.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the instruction which, when executed, further cause the machine to receive a request from one or more management application to initiate the monitoring of the system resources.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the system resources include Java resources associated with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine, or Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) resources associated with an ABAP engine.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the system resources include one or more of kernel, services, interfaces, libraries, and sessions.