Application configuration deployment monitor

• US 8,584,087 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2009
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Rasch, Tobias, Hinkel, Wolfram
• Primary Examiner(s): RHU, KRIS M
• Application Number:
  US12/636,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,432 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for monitoring application instance configurations and deployments. One such embodiment, in the form of a method includes executing, on at least one processor, an application deployment process to deploy at least one set of configuration settings stored in a memory device of an application configuration environment to an application instance in an application execution environment. The method may also include writing and storing data to a deployment log representative of application deployment process actions performed and an indicator of success of each of the performed actions. The deployment log data may then be retrieved from the data storage device and a view may be generated and presented providing a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful. Other embodiments are described herein.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory;

an application configuration environment including;

a configuration repository, stored in the at least one memory, including configuration settings of at least one instance of an application; and

a data repository, stored in the at least one memory, including data and content for deployment to the at least one instance of the application;

a deployment module stored in the at least one memory and executable by the at least one processor to deploy the at least one application instance to an application execution environment including the at least one application instance, the deployment module executable by the at least one processor to;

deploy configuration settings from the configuration repository to the application execution environment;

execute an activation process to activate functionality of the at least one application instance;

deploy data from the data repository to one or more data stores in the application execution environment; and

generate log entries in a deployment log repository of the application execution environment for performed deployment and activation actions;

a deployment monitor module stored in the at least one memory and executable by the at least one processor to;

retrieve data from the deployment log repository and generate a view of the retrieved data, the view renderable to provide a summary of deployment and activation actions performed and deployment and activation actions which were not successful; and

provide an indicator in the view indicating an update to the at least one application instance is available, the indicator activated by;

determining when a deployment was last performed for the at least one application instance according to date-time-stamp data included in the retrieved deployment log data;

retrieving data from the application configuration environment for the at least one application instance;

determining, based on the data retrieved from the application configuration environment, when the application configuration environment for the at least one application instance was last modified;

when the application configuration environment for the at least one application instance has been modified since performance of the last deployment, activating, the indicator in the view indicating a configuration update is available.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the indicator of an available update in the application configuration environment for the at least one application instance is a user interface element, the selection of which triggers execution of the deployment module to deploy data from the application configuration environment not yet deployed to the at least one application instance in the application execution environment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the deployment monitor module is further executable by the at least one processor to:

retrieve deployment log data of a plurality of application instances from deployment log repositories of a plurality of application execution environments, each application execution environment including, at least one application instance; and

generate a view of the retrieved data providing, for each application instance, a summary of deployment and activation actions performed and a number of which actions were not successful.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the deployment monitor module is further executable by the at least one processor to:

retrieve data from configuration repositories of each of the plurality of application instances;

compare the data retrieved from the configuration repositories to data deployed to the application execution environments of respective application instances to identify differences; and

provide, for each application instance, at least one visual indicator of the identified differences.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the summary of deployment and activation actions performed and deployment and activation actions that were not successful includes a count of deployment and activation actions that were not successful.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the application configuration environment and the application execution environment are computing environments on disparate computing devices.

7. A method comprising:

executing, on at least one processor, an application deployment process to deploy at least one set of configuration settings stored in a memory device of an application configuration environment to an application instance in an application execution environment;

writing data to a deployment log representative of application deployment process actions performed, an indicator of success of each of the performed actions, and a date-time-stamp of when the actions were performed;

storing the deployment log on a data storage device;

executing, on the at least one processor, an application activation process to activate at least a portion of the application instance to which the application deployment process deployed the at least one set of configuration settings;

writing data to the deployment log representative of application activation process actions performed and an indicator of success of each of the performed actions;

retrieving deployment log data from the data storage device; and

generating and presenting a view of the retrieved deployment log data, the view renderable to provide a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the application configuration environment and the application execution environment are computing environments on disparate computing devices.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising

determining when a deployment was last performed for the application instance according to date-time-stamp data included in the retrieved deployment log data;

retrieving data from the application configuration environment for the application instance;

determining, based on the data retrieved from the application configuration environment, when the application configuration environment for the application instance was last modified;

when the application configuration environment for the application instance has been modified since performance of the last deployment for the application instance, providing an indicator in the presented view of the retrieved deployment log data of the availability of a configuration update.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an input command to execute the application deployment process to deploy the un-deployed data from the application configuration environment for the application instance to the application execution environment for the application instance.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the deployment log includes data for a plurality of application instances, the method further comprising:

retrieving deployment log data for each of the plurality of application instances; and

generating and presenting a view of the retrieved deployment log data, the view providing, for each of the plurality of application instances, a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein at least two of the plurality of application instances are deployed within different application execution environments.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the generated and presented view for each of the plurality of application instances includes an identifier of an application execution environment within which the particular application instance is deployed.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor of a computer, cause the computer to:

deploy at least one set of configuration settings stored in a memory device of an application configuration environment to an application instance in an application execution environment;

write data to a deployment log representative of application deployment process actions performed, an indicator of success of each of the performed actions, and a date-time-stamp of when the actions were performed;

store the deployment log on a data storage device;

execute an application activation process to activate at least a portion of the application instance to which the application deployment process deployed the at least one set of configuration settings;

write data to the deployment log representative of application activation process actions performed and an indicator of success of each of the performed actions;

retrieve deployment log data from the data storage device; and

generate and presenting a view of the retrieved deployment log data, the view providing a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the application configuration environment and the application execution environment are computing environments on disparate computing, devices.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, with further instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor of the computer, cause the computer to:

determine when a deployment was last performed for the application instance according to date-time-stamp data included in the retrieved deployment log data retrieve data from the application configuration environment for the application instance;

determine, based on the data retrieved from the application configuration environment, when the application configuration environment for the application instance was last modified;

when the application configuration environment for the application instance has been modified since performance of the last deployment for the application instance, provide an indicator in the presented view of the retrieved deployment log data of the availability of a configuration update.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, with further instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor of the computer, cause the computer to:

receive an input command to execute the application deployment process to deploy the un-deployed data from the application configuration environment for the application instance to the application execution environment for the application instance.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the deployment log includes data for a plurality of application instances, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including further instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor of the computer, cause the computer to:

retrieve deployment log data for each of the plurality of application instances; and

generate and present a view of the retrieved deployment log data, the view providing, for each of the plurality of application instances, a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful.