Controlling computer nodes through social media

• US 9,264,323 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bodine, Gregory Lewis, Kleinschnitz, Don, Bodine, Josef, Kleinschnitz, James D.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCCARTHY, CHRISTOPHER S
• Application Number:
  US14/102,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20150163103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Abstract

Some embodiments are directed to a computer node that communicates a report message containing information to a social media server to cause publishing of the information to other computer nodes tracking publishing on the social media server by the computer node. The computer node receives a response message from one of the other computer nodes through the social media server, and operates based on the response message. Related embodiments are directed to another computer node that communicates with a social media server to track information published by report messages from other computer nodes, generates a response message based on the information published by one of the other computer nodes, and communicates the response message to the social media server to cause publishing of content of the response message to the other computer nodes.

Claims

1. A computer node comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor and comprising computer readable program code that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising;

generating information indicating an operational condition of the computer node;

communicating a report message containing the information to a social media server to cause publishing of the information through the social media server to other computer nodes tracking publishing on the social media server by the computer node;

tracking informational postings by the other computer nodes to the social media server;

identifying one of the informational postings by one of the other computer nodes as being responsive to the report message;

selecting an action among a plurality of defined actions based on the one of the informational postings identified as being responsive to the report message; and

performing the action that is selected among the plurality of defined actions.

2. The computer node of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

selecting an identifier from among a plurality of defined identifiers that identify different groupings of messages published by the social media server which can be separately tracked by the other computer nodes, based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer,

wherein the communicating the report message comprises posting the report message to the social media server with the identifier that is selected from among the plurality of defined identifiers based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer.

3. The computer node of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

selecting an identifier from among a plurality of defined identifiers that identify different groupings of web feeds maintained by the social media server which can be separately tracked by the other computer nodes, based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer,

wherein communicating the report message to the social media server comprises communicating a web feed containing the information with the identifier that is selected from among the plurality of defined identifiers based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer.

4. The computer node of claim 3, wherein the web feed comprises a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed containing the information with the identifier that is tracked by the other computer nodes.

5. The computer node of claim 1, wherein generating the information indicating the operational condition of the computer node, comprises:

generating a text string informational description of the operational condition; and

embedding the text string informational description in the report message.

6. The computer node of claim 1, wherein generating the information indicating the operational condition of the computer node, comprises:

generating a graphical informational description of the operational condition; and

embedding the graphical informational description in the report message.

7. The computer node of claim 1, wherein generating the information indication of the operational condition of the computer node comprises indicating at least one of an error arising while processing an application on the computer node, a protected memory space access violation by an application while being processed on the computer node, an available memory space of the computer node that is usable to process an application not satisfying a defined threshold, an available communication bandwidth of the computer node that is usable by an application not satisfying a defined threshold, and an available processing bandwidth of the computer node that is used to process an application not satisfying a defined threshold.

8. A method comprising:

performing operations as follows on a processor of a computer node;

generating information indicating an operational condition of the computer node;

communicating a report message containing the information to a social media server to cause publishing of the information through the social media server to other computer nodes tracking publishing on the social media server by the computer node;

tracking informational postings by the other computer nodes to the social media server;

identifying one of the informational postings by one of the other computer nodes as being responsive to the report message;

selecting an action among a plurality of defined actions based on the one of the informational postings identified as being responsive to the report message; and

performing the action that is selected among the plurality of defined actions.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

selecting an identifier from among a plurality of defined identifiers that identify different groupings of messages published by the social media server which can be separately tracked by the other computer nodes, based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer,

wherein the communicating the report message comprises posting the report message to the social media server with the identifier that is selected from among the plurality of defined identifiers based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

selecting an identifier from among a plurality of defined identifiers that identify different groupings of web feeds maintained by the social media server which can be separately tracked by the other computer nodes, based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer,

wherein communicating the report message to the social media server comprises communicating a web feed containing the information with the identifier that is selected from among the plurality of defined identifiers based on the information indicating the operational condition of the computer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the web feed comprises a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed containing the information with the identifier that is tracked by the other computer nodes.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the information indicating the operational condition of the computer node, comprises:

generating a text string informational description of the operational condition; and

embedding the text string informational description in the report message.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the information indicating the operational condition of the computer node, comprises:

generating a graphical informational description of the operational condition; and

embedding the graphical informational description in the report message.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the information indication of the operational condition of the computer node comprises indicating at least one of an error arising while processing an application on the computer node, a protected memory space access violation by an application while being processed on the computer node, an available memory space of the computer node that is usable to process an application not satisfying a defined threshold, an available communication bandwidth of the computer node that is usable by an application not satisfying a defined threshold, and an available processing bandwidth of the computer node that is used to process an application not satisfying a defined threshold.