Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and program

• US 8,549,137 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2007
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Oono, Mitsuhiro, Kato, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHIU, HO T
• Application Number:
  US12/308,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20090198814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,318 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring

Abstract

Diverting condition storage unit 15 stores diverting conditions describing conditions for hardware configurations and software configurations. Monitoring data storage unit 13 stores monitoring data on the hardware configurations and the software configurations on monitored devices. Monitoring setting information storage unit stores monitoring setting information on the monitored devices. By referencing monitoring data and diverting conditions, first setting-diverting unit judges if monitoring setting information set in a monitored device may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device and outputs the result to a management terminal. The system administrator diverts the monitoring setting information among multiple monitored devices based on judgment result.

Claims

1. A monitoring device comprising:

a monitoring manager configured to set up a monitoring setting information to a first monitoring agent installed in a first monitored device and a second monitoring agent installed in a second monitored device, and configured to receive monitoring data comprising resource consumption of a hardware or a software from the first and the second monitoring agents, and configured to store the received monitoring data in a monitoring data storage unit; and

the first monitoring agent monitors hardware or software of the first monitored device according to monitoring setting information comprising metrics regarding the resource of the first monitored device; and

the second monitoring agent monitors hardware or software of the second monitored device according to monitoring setting information comprising metrics regarding the resource of the second monitored device; and

a diverting condition storage unit that stores diverting conditions comprising resource requirement of the second monitored device for setting a monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent as a monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent; and

a diverting unit that receives an identifier of the second monitored device, and judges if the monitoring setting information of the first monitored agent is available to be set as the monitoring setting information of the second monitored agent by referencing the monitoring data of the first monitored device and the diverting conditions of the second monitored device, and

outputs the judged result when shows the monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent is available to be set as a monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent.

2. The monitoring device as defined by claim 1,

wherein the diverting unit calculates a satisfaction score, which is a degree of conformance to the diverting conditions for diverting the monitoring setting information of each first monitored agent, and detects a diverting-source monitored device, of which the monitoring setting information is available to be set as monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent by referencing the satisfaction scores.

3. The monitoring device as defined by claim 1, further comprising:

a diverting condition presentation setting unit that displays a resource status describing resource consumption, which is included in monitoring data on the first monitored device stored in the monitoring data storage unit, on a screen of the management terminal and, when a system administrator selects the displayed resource status and specifies that the displayed resource status be modified, the diverting condition presentation setting unit shows diverting conditions of the second monitored device in the diverting condition storage unit.

4. The monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the dynamic resources information comprises a CPU use rate or a memory use rate.

5. The monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the diverting unit calculates a total satisfaction score by adding a plurality of satisfaction scores, and detects a diverting-source monitored device, of which the monitoring setting information is available to be set as monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent by referencing the total satisfaction scores,

wherein each of the satisfaction scores is set when a corresponding diverting condition, stored in the diverting condition storage unit, is satisfied.

6. A monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of monitored devices each of which has a monitoring agent;

a monitoring device connected communicably to said plurality of monitored devices; and

a management terminal connected to said monitoring device,

wherein said monitoring device comprises;

a monitoring manager configured to monitor a first monitoring agent in a first monitored device and a second monitoring agent in a second monitored device according to monitoring setting information stored in a monitoring setting information storage unit, receive monitoring data on hardware configurations or software configurations from the first and second monitoring agents, and store the received monitoring data in a monitoring data storage unit;

a diverting condition storage unit that stores diverting conditions describing hardware configurations or software configurations for diverting monitoring setting information corresponding to the first monitored device, which is a diverting source monitored device; and

a diverting unit that receives an identifier of the second monitored device, which is a diverting-destination monitored device and judges if the monitoring setting information corresponding to the first monitored device is available to be set as monitoring setting information on the second monitored device by referencing the monitoring data of the first monitored device and the diverting conditions, and outputs the judged result to said management terminal,

wherein the monitoring data comprises dynamic resource information, which is information that varies during operation of the monitoring device and the diverting conditions comprises the dynamic resource information required by the first monitored device.

7. A monitoring method for monitoring monitored devices by a computer connected communicably to a plurality of said monitored devices, each of which has a monitoring agent,

said monitoring method comprises:

judging, by said computer, if monitoring setting information, which is set in a first monitored device that is a diverting-source monitored device, is available to be set as monitoring setting information on a second monitored device that is a diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing monitoring data of the first monitored device and the diverting conditions and outputting the judged result to a management terminal, said monitoring data being data on hardware configurations or software configurations of the first and second monitored devices stored in a storage unit, said monitoring setting information conditions describing the required hardware configurations or software configurations;

setting, by said computer, monitoring setting information, which is stored in said storage unit, in the monitoring agent of the monitored device according to an instruction from said management terminal; and

receiving, by said computer, monitoring data on the hardware configuration and the software configuration sent from the respective monitoring agent and storing the received monitoring data in said storage unit,

wherein the monitoring data comprises dynamic resource information, which is information that varies during operation of the monitoring device and the diverting conditions comprises the dynamic resource information required by the first monitored device.

8. The monitoring method as defined by claim 7, wherein said judging comprises:

receiving a specification of a diverting-destination monitored device from said management terminal, and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in the monitored device other than the specified diverting-destination monitored device, may be imported as monitoring setting information on said diverting-destination monitored device.

9. The monitoring method as defined by claim 8, wherein said judging comprises:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-source candidate; and

deciding a diverting-source monitored device, from which monitoring setting information is importable to said diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing the calculation result.

10. The monitoring method as defined by claim 7, wherein said judging comprises:

receiving a specification of a diverting-source monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in the specified diverting-source monitored device, is available to be set as monitoring setting information on the other monitored device.

11. The monitoring method as defined by claim 10, wherein said judging comprises:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-destination candidate; and

deciding a diverting-destination monitored device, to which monitoring setting information that is set in the diverting-source monitored device importable, by referencing the calculation result.

12. The monitoring method as defined by claim 7, wherein the dynamic resources information comprises a CPU use rate or a memory use rate.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program that causes a computer, connected communicably to a plurality of monitored devices each of which has a monitoring agent, to perform:

a first process of judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in a first monitored device that is a diverting-source monitored device, is available to be set as monitoring setting information on a second monitored device that is a diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing monitoring data of the first monitored device and the diverting conditions and diverting conditions and outputting the judged result to a management terminal, said monitoring data being data on hardware configurations or software configurations of the monitored devices stored in a storage unit, said diverting conditions describing the required hardware configurations or software configurations;

a second process of setting monitoring setting information, which is stored in said storage unit, in the monitoring agent of the monitored device according to an instruction from said management terminal; and

a third process of receiving monitoring data on the hardware configuration and the software configuration sent from the respective monitoring agent and storing the received monitoring data in said storage unit, wherein the monitoring data comprises dynamic resource information, which is information that varies during operation of the monitoring device and the diverting conditions comprises the dynamic resource information required by the first monitored device.

14. The program as defined by claim 13, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

receiving a specification of a diverting-destination monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in the monitored device other than the specified diverting-destination monitored device, is available to be set as monitoring setting information on said diverting-destination monitored device.

15. The program as defined by claim 14, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-source candidate; and

deciding a diverting-source monitored device, from which monitoring setting information is importable to said diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing the calculation result.

16. The program as defined by claim 13, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

receiving a specification of a diverting-source monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if the monitoring setting information, which is set in the specified diverting-source monitored device, is available to be set as monitoring setting information on the other monitored device.

17. The program as defined by claim 16, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-destination candidate; and

deciding a diverting-destination monitored device, to which the monitoring setting information that is set in the diverting-source monitored device importable, by referencing the calculation result.

18. The program as defined by claim 13, wherein the dynamic resources information comprises a CPU use rate or a memory use rate.

19. A monitoring device comprising:

a monitoring manager configured to set up a monitoring setting information to a first monitoring agent installed in a first monitored device and a second monitoring agent installed in a second monitored device, and configured to receive monitoring data comprising the resource consumption of the hardware or the software from the first and the second monitoring agent, and configured to store the received monitoring data in a monitoring data storage unit; and

the first monitoring agent monitors hardware or software of the first monitored device according to monitoring setting information comprising the metrics regarding the resource of a device; and

the second monitoring agent monitors hardware or software of the second monitored device according to monitoring setting information comprising the metrics regarding the resource of a device; and

a diverting condition storage unit that stores diverting conditions comprising the resource requirements of the first monitored device for setting a monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent as a monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent; and

a diverting unit that receives an identifier of the first monitored device,

and judges if the monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent is available to be set as a monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent by referencing the monitoring data of the second monitored device and the diverting condition of the first monitored device,

and outputs the judged result, which shows the monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent is available to be set as a monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent.

20. The monitoring device as defined by claim 19, wherein the diverting unit calculates a satisfaction score, which is a degree of conformance to the diverting conditions for diverting the monitoring setting information of each second monitoring agent, and detects second monitored device, of which the monitoring setting information is available to be set as monitoring setting information of the first monitoring agent by referencing the satisfaction scores.

21. The monitoring device of claim 19, wherein the diverting unit calculates a total satisfaction score by adding a plurality of satisfaction scores, and detects a diverting-source monitored device, of which the monitoring setting information is available to be set as monitoring setting information of the second monitoring agent by referencing the total satisfaction scores,

wherein each of the satisfaction scores is set when a corresponding diverting condition, stored in the diverting condition storage unit, is satisfied.