Dynamic administration of component event reporting in a distributed processing system

• US 8,621,277 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2010
• Issued: 12/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Carey, James E., Markland, Matthew W., Sanders, Philip J.
• Primary Examiner(s): LOHN, JOSHUA A
• Application Number:
  US12/960,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: 714/57, 714/26
• US Class Current: 714/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3065 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766

Abstract

Methods, systems and products are provided for dynamic administration of component event reporting in a distributed processing system including receiving, by an events analyzer from an events queue, a plurality of events from one or more components of the distributed processing system; determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more event analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components; and instructing, by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules.

Claims

1. A system for dynamic administration of component event reporting in a distributed processing system, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the system to carry out the steps of:

receiving, by an events analyzer from an events queue, a plurality of events from one or more components of the distributed processing system;

determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more event analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components; and

instructing, by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein instructing by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules further comprises instructing the component to suppress events of a particular event type.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein instructing by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules further comprises instructing the component to discontinue suppressing events of a particular event type.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer memory has disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the system to carry out the steps of:

receiving, by the one or more components, the instruction to change the event reporting rules; and

changing, by the one or more components, the event reporting rules in accordance with the instruction.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer memory has disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the system to carry out the step of assigning, by the event analyzer, one or more of the events to an events pool;

and

wherein determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more events analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components further comprises determining whether an arrival rate of one or events of a particular event type from one or more components of the distributed processing system is greater than a predetermined threshold.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer memory has disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of causing the system to carry out the step of assigning, by the event analyzer, one or more of the events to an events pool;

and

wherein determining in dependence upon one or more of the events in the events pool to change the event reporting rules of the one or more components further comprises determining that a threshold number of events of a particular kind are assigned to the events pool.

7. A computer program product for of dynamic administration of component event reporting in a distributed processing system, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable medium, wherein the computer readable medium comprises a storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions for:

receiving, by an events analyzer from an events queue, a plurality of events from one or more components of the distributed processing system;

determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more event analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components; and

instructing, by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions for instructing by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules further comprise computer program instructions for instructing the component to suppress events of a particular event type.

9. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions for instructing by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules further comprise computer program instructions for instructing the component to discontinue suppressing events of a particular event type.

10. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising computer program instructions for receiving, by the one or more components, the instruction to change the event reporting rules;

and

computer program instructions for changing, by the one or more components, the event reporting rules in accordance with the instruction.

11. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising computer program instructions for assigning, by the event analyzer, one or more of the events to an events pool;

and

wherein computer program instructions for determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more events analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components further comprise computer program instructions for determining whether an arrival rate of one or events of a particular event type from one or more components of the distributed processing system is greater than a predetermined threshold.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 further comprising computer program instructions for assigning, by the event analyzer, one or more of the events to an events pool;

and

wherein computer program instructions for determining in dependence upon one or more of the events in the events pool to change the event reporting rules of the one or more components further comprises computer program instructions for determining that a threshold number of events of a particular kind are assigned to the events pool.