Event management in a distributed processing system

• US 9,344,381 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Atkins, Mark G., Carey, James E., Sanders, Philip J.
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, KHANH Q
• Application Number:
  US13/688,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20150149630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/224, 709/227, 709/203
• 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 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/82 Miscellaneous aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for event management in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include receiving, by the incident analyzer, one or more events from one or more resources, each event identifying a location of the resource producing the event; identifying, by the incident analyzer, an action in dependence upon the one or more events and the location of the one or more resources producing the one or more events; identifying, by the incident analyzer, a location scope for the action in dependence upon the one or more events; and executing, by the incident analyzer, the identified action.

Claims

1. A method of event management in a distributed processing system, the method comprising:

receiving, by an incident analyzer, one or more events from one or more resources, each resource comprising an aggregation of computer hardware and software, each event identifying a location of the resource producing the event and comprising a status report describing an incident occurring at the resource;

identifying, by the incident analyzer, an action in dependence upon the one or more events and the location of the one or more resources producing the one or more events;

identifying, by the incident analyzer, a location scope for the action in dependence upon the one or more events; and

executing, by the incident analyzer, the identified action.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the location is indicated by a logical location.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the location is indicated by a physical location.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising assigning, by the incident analyzer, a location identification to each resource of a plurality of resources in the distributed processing system.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising assigning, by the incident analyzer, a location identification to each resource of a plurality of resources in the distributed processing system wherein assigning a location identification to each resource of a plurality of resources in the distributed processing system further comprises assigning, by the incident analyzer, the plurality of resources to a location hierarchy having a plurality of tiers, each type of resource assigned to a tier;

and

wherein identifying a location scope for the action further comprises identifying, by the incident analyzer, a tier in the location hierarchy corresponding to the action.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprises assigning, by the incident analyzer, a location identification to each resource of a plurality of resources in the distributed processing system wherein assigning a location identification to each resource of a plurality of resources in the distributed processing system further comprises:

identifying, by the incident analyzer, a name and a unique identifier for each resource; and

including, by the incident analyzer, the name and the unique identifier for each resource in the location identification corresponding to the resource.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying a location scope for the action in dependence upon the event includes checking, by the incident analyzer, the validity of the location scope.