Methods and apparatus for implementing a data management framework to collect network management data

• US 8,769,065 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Ninan, Anoop George, Shmuylovich, Samuil
• Primary Examiner(s): Choudhury, Azizul
• Assistant Examiner(s): NAJEE-ULLAH, TARIQ S
• Application Number:
  US11/540,096
• Time in Patent Office: 2,832 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 718/1, 718100-108, 719/311, 719316-320, 719328-332
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/11 File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots file system backup G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information

Abstract

A system receives identification of at least one data structure to contain the network management data associated with the managed resource. The system receives notification that at least one type adapter structure has been created. The type adapter is associated with the data structure. The system receives identification of at least one key common to the data structure, and the network management data. The system receives notification that methods within the at least one type adapter structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of enabling a data management framework to collect network management data from a managed resource, the method comprising:

receiving identification of an non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

receiving identification of at least one data structure in the data management framework to contain the network management data associated with the non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

receiving the network management data associated with the non-managed resource in the at least one data structure of the data management framework;

receiving notification that at least one type-adapter class structure has been created in the data management framework, the at least one type-adapter class structure created by an administrator of the data management framework, associated with the at least one data structure, and corresponding to the non-managed resource from which network management data was received;

receiving identification of at least one key common to the at least one data structure and the network management data; and

receiving notification that methods within the at least one type-adapter class structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database enabling the data management framework to collect network management data from the previously non-managed resource as a managed resource.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising:

providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource, into the data management framework, by identifying components associated with the development framework, the components identified by performing at least one of;

i) identifying the at least one data structure;

ii) creating the at least one type-adapter class;

iii) identifying the at least one key; and

iv) implementing methods within the at least one type-adapter class; and

operating the development framework so that the non-managed resource becomes a managed resource via the collection of network management data within the data management framework.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

identifying a service has been created, the service containing at least one of the components identified by the application developer, the service operating to process the network management data received from the managed resource, the service identified by a service name; and

associating the service name to a transaction involving receipt of the network management data.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

receiving notification that a hierarchy has been identified, the hierarchy associated with the managed resource.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

validating implementation of at least one instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure based on the hierarchy associated with the managed resource, the hierarchy indicating an order in which the at least one instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure is implemented with respect to at least one other instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

receiving notification that at least one related type-adapter class structure associated with the at least one type-adapter class structure has been identified, creation of the at least one related type-adapter class structure required for the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database; and

validating creation of the at least one related type-adapter class structure associated with the at least one type-adapter class structure.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein validating creation of the at least one related type-adapter class structure associated with the at least one type-adapter class structure comprises:

validating modification of a method to confirm existence of the at least one related type-adapter class structure prior to creation of the at least one type-adapter class structure.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

receiving notification that at least one foreign type-adapter class structure associated with the at least one type-adapter class structure has been identified, the at least one foreign type-adapter class structure associated with at least one other managed resource that maintains a relationship with the managed resource for which the at least one data structure contains the network management data; and

validating creation of the at least one foreign type-adapter class structure associated with the at least one type-adapter class structure.

9. The method of claim 4 wherein providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource comprises:

validating implementation of the at least one key based on a hierarchy associated with the managed resource, the hierarchy indicating an order in which the at least one key is implemented with respect to at least one other key.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein validating implementation of the at least one key based on a hierarchy associated with the managed resource comprises:

detecting creation of a constructor that accepts, as a parameter, an identifying member of the at least one key that associates the at least one key with the data structure.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein detecting creation of a constructor that accepts, as a parameter, an identifying member of the at least one key that associates the at least one key with the data structure comprises:

receiving identification of a unique identifier associated with the managed resource, as the parameter.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein detecting creation of a constructor that accepts, as a parameter, an identifying member of the at least one key that associates the at least one key with the data structure comprises:

receiving identification of at least one parent key associated with the at least one key, the parent key and the at least one key having a hierarchical relationship.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving notification that methods within the at least one type-adapter class structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database comprises:

receiving notification that the at least one data structure is capable of being transmitted as a plurality of partitions; and

validating modification of a method within the type-adapter class such that the method successfully processes the plurality of partitions during a mapping of the network management data to a managed object database, the at least one data structure comprising the plurality of partitions.

14. A computerized device comprising:

a memory;

a processor;

a communications interface;

an interconnection mechanism coupling the memory, the processor and the communications interface;

wherein the memory is encoded with a data management framework implementing application that when executed on the processor is capable of implementing a data management framework on the computerized device by performing the operations of;

receiving identification of a non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

receiving identification of at least one data structure in the data management framework to contain the network management data associated with a non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

receiving the network management data associated with the non-managed resource in the at least one data structure of the data management framework;

receiving notification that at least one type-adapter class structure has been created in the data management framework, the at least one type-adapter class structure created by an administrator of the data management framework, associated with the at least one data structure, and corresponding to the non-managed resource from which network management data was received;

receiving identification of at least one key common to the at least one data structure and the network management data; and

receiving notification that methods within the at least one type-adapter class structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database enabling the data management framework to collect network management data from the previously non-managed resource as a managed resource.

15. The computerized device of claim 14 wherein the computerized device is capable of performing the operation of:

providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource, into the data management framework, by identifying components associated with the development framework, the components identified by performing at least one of;

i) identifying the at least one data structure;

ii) creating the at least one type-adapter class;

iii) identifying the at least one key; and

iv) implementing methods within the at least one type-adapter class; and

operating the development framework so that the non-managed resource becomes a managed resource via the collection of network management data within the data management framework.

16. The computerized device of claim 15 wherein when the computerized device performs the operation of providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource, the computerized device is capable of performing the operation of:

identifying a service has been created, the service containing at least one of the components identified by the application developer, the service operating to process the network management data received from the managed resource, the service identified by a service name; and

associating the service name to a transaction involving receipt of the network management data.

17. The computerized device of claim 15 wherein when the computerized device performs the operation of providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource, the computerized device is capable of performing the operation of:

receiving notification that a hierarchy has been identified, the hierarchy associated with the managed resource.

18. The computerized device of claim 17 wherein when the computerized device performs the operation of providing a development framework that allows an application developer to introduce network management data collection of the non-managed resource, the computerized device is capable of performing the operation of:

validating implementation of at least one instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure based on the hierarchy associated with the managed resource, the hierarchy indicating an order in which the at least one instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure is implemented with respect to at least one other instance of the at least one type-adapter class structure.

19. The computerized device of claim 14 wherein when the computerized device performs the operation of receiving notification that methods within the at least one type-adapter class structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database, the computerized device is capable of performing the operation of:

receiving notification that the at least one data structure is capable of being transmitted as a plurality of partitions; and

validating modification of a method within the type-adapter class such that the method successfully processes the plurality of partitions during a mapping of the network management data to a managed object database, the at least one data structure comprising the plurality of partitions.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer programming logic encoded thereon that when executed on a processor in a computerized device provides data management framework implementation, the medium comprising:

Instructions for receiving identification of a non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

instructions for receiving identification of at least one data structure in the data management framework to contain the network management data associated with the non-managed resource to be managed within the data management framework;

instructions for receiving the network management data associated with the non-managed resource in the at least one data structure of the data management framework;

instructions for receiving notification that at least one type-adapter class structure has been created in the data management framework, the at least one type-adapter class structure created by an administrator of the data management framework, associated with the at least one data structure, and corresponding to the non-managed resource from which network management data was received;

instructions for receiving identification of at least one key common to the at least one data structure and the network management data; and

instructions for receiving notification that methods within the at least one type-adapter class structure have been implemented to enable the network management data to be mapped from the at least one data structure to a managed object database enabling the data management framework to collect network management data from the previously non-managed resource as a managed resource.