Universal architecture for client management extensions on monitoring, control, and configuration

• US 8,566,387 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2012
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, David Wei-Jye, Lee, Bilung, Ostler, Paul Arnold
• Primary Examiner(s): SERRAO, RANODHI N
• Application Number:
  US13/450,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20120203819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/227, 707/617, 370/421
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5011 Pool
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Provided are techniques for, under control of an agent: receiving a request from a first database client to access a service from a set of services, wherein the agent is associated with the service; receiving a request from a second database client to access the service, wherein the agent is shared by the first database client and the second database client; combining information from the first database client and the second database client; and sending the combined information to the service using a single physical connection in a client-side Client Management Extension (CMX) connection, wherein the first database client and the second database client share the single physical connection.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

under control of a client-side CMX connection including a client-side core processor, one or more client-side management processors, and a client-side message queue,

negotiating a version of a client-side management processor and a corresponding server-side management processor, wherein the client-side management processor and the server-side management processor correspond to a service, and wherein the negotiation includes sending a request with a client-side management processor version as an argument using the client-side core processor to a server-side CMX connection, wherein a generic protocol that is used for multiple management functionalities is used for communication with the server-side CMX connection;

receiving from the server-side CMX connection a minimum between an actual version of the corresponding server-side management processor and a requested version of the client-side management processor, wherein the client-side management processor and the server-side management processor are marked as registered; and

under control of the server-side CMX connection,

in response to receiving a synchronous message from the client-side CMX connection,

forward the synchronous message to a management processor of the server-side CMX connection, wherein the management processor generates a reply; and

return the reply to the client-side CMX connection; and

in response to receiving an asynchronous message from the client-side CMX connection, forward the asynchronous message to a management processor of the server-side CMX connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the management functionalities include monitoring, control, and configuration functionalities.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

under control of the client-side CMX connection,

in response to receiving a synchronous message from the server-side CMX connection;

forwarding the synchronous message to a management processor of the client-side CMX connection, wherein the management processor generates a reply; and

returning the reply to the server-side CMX connection; and

in response to receiving an asynchronous message from the server-side CMX connection, forwarding the asynchronous message to a management processor of the client-side CMX connection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the client-side message queue accumulates and combines information from multiple agents.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an agent accumulates and combines information from multiple agents.