Offloading collection of application monitoring data

• US 8,959,051 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2012
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Reveille Software, Inc.
• Original Assignee: RTIP Incorporated
• Inventors: Trugman, Rodney M., DeWyer, Brian Austin
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DEBBIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/527,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20130346367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• Field of Search: 707/702, 707/736, 707/613, 707/603
• US Class Current: 707/613
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for offloading collection of monitored data. A data collector is associated with a plurality of monitored data sources and with a plurality of monitored data recipients. The data collector collects a cycle of monitored data from each of the sources of monitored data and persistently stores each of the cycles of monitored data in a separate monitored data package. The data collector provides the monitored data packages to the associated monitored data recipients in a manner that is asynchronous to the collection of the monitored data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

associating a data collector with a plurality of sources of monitored data, each respective source of monitored data associated with a corresponding monitored component;

associating the data collector with a plurality of monitored data recipients;

collecting, by the data collector, a cycle of monitored data from each source of monitored data;

persistently storing, by the data collector, each cycle of monitored data in a separate monitored data package;

providing, by the data collector, the monitored data packages to the associated monitored data recipients in a manner that is asynchronous to the collection of the monitored data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data collector is centrally administrable and remotely configurable.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the sources of monitored data is identified by at least one of a name, a network address, a domain, a user name, and user credentials.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the sources of monitored data corresponds to an enterprise content management (ECM) server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing further comprises:

sending the monitored data packages to at least one of the associated monitored data recipients without a corresponding request from the at least one of the associated monitored data recipients.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing further comprises:

sending the monitored data packages to at least one of the associated monitored data recipients in response to a request from the at least one of the associated monitored data recipients.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing is implemented as a web service.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a monitoring action on at least one of the sources of monitored data that results in at least a portion of the monitored data.

9. A system comprising:

at least one memory storing instructions thereon; and

at least one processor configured by the instructions to implement;

a plurality of monitors, each monitor configured to execute one or more tests on a corresponding enterprise content management (ECM) monitored component to produce monitored data;

a data collector associated with the plurality of monitors and configured to collect, from each of the monitors, a cycle of the monitored data and to persistently store each cycle in a separate monitored data package; and

a plurality of monitored data recipients associated with the data collector, wherein each of the monitored data recipients is further configured to retrieve a respective one of the monitored data packages from the data collector in manner that is asynchronous to the collection of the monitored data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein at least one of the sources of monitored data corresponds to an enterprise content management (ECM) server.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the monitored data package comprises an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising an evaluation module configured to evaluate data in the monitored data package and to produce an alert when triggered by the evaluation.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein an initial one of the collection cycles uses a random start time.

14. A system comprising:

memory storing instructions thereon; and

a processor configured by the instructions to implement;

a data collector associated with a plurality of sources of monitored data, each of the sources of monitored data referencing a monitored data category;

a plurality of monitored data recipients associated with the data collector; and

wherein the data collector is configured to collect, from each of the sources of monitored data, a cycle of monitored data, wherein the collected cycle of monitored data is specific to the monitored data category referenced in the respective source of monitored data;

wherein the data collector is further configured to persistently store the collected monitored data in separate monitored data packages, each monitored data package specific to the monitored data category identified in the corresponding source of monitored data;

wherein each of the monitors is further configured to retrieve one or more of the monitored data packages in manner that is asynchronous to the collection of the monitored data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the associations between the data collector and the sources of monitored data are stored at the data collector.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the associations between the data collector and the sources of monitored data are stored remotely from the data collector.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein an initial one of the collection cycles uses a random start time.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the data collector remains logged in to at least one of the sources of monitored data between collection cycles.

19. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a module configured to execute one or more tests that produce the monitored data.

20. The system of claim 14, further comprising an evaluation module configured to evaluate data in the monitored data package and to produce an alert when triggered by the evaluation.