Installing monitoring utilities using universal performance monitor

• US 9,355,004 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat Israel Ltd. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Pasternak, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/898,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,065 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3093 Configuration details thereof, e.g. installation, enabling, spatial arrangement of the probes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring

Abstract

A universal performance monitor includes an abstraction layer for managing multiple disparate monitoring tools on one or more computing devices. During runtime of the universal performance monitor on a first computing device, the universal performance monitor establishes a secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device. The universal performance monitor queries the second computing device via the secure channel to determine whether the second computing device includes a specified monitoring tool. Upon determining that the second computing device does not include the specified monitoring tool, the universal performance monitor causes the second computing device to obtain the specified monitoring tool from a designated location, to install the specified monitoring tool with a particular configuration, to execute the specified monitoring tool and to redirect an output of the specified monitoring tool to the first computing device via the first secure channel.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

establishing, by a first computing device, a first secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device, and a second secure channel between the first computing device and the second computing device;

identifying, by a processing device of the first computing device, a first monitoring tool to monitor one or more virtual machines and a second monitoring tool to monitor one or more physical devices;

determining, by the processing device, that the second computing device includes the first monitoring tool and does not include the second monitoring tool; and

transmitting to the second computing device an executable that is different than the first monitoring tool and the second monitoring tool and that, when executed by the second computing device, causes the second computing device to;

execute the first monitoring tool, direct output from the first monitoring tool to the first computing device via the first secure channel, obtain from a designated location the second monitoring tool, install the second monitoring tool, execute the second monitoring tool, and direct output from the second monitoring tool to the first computing device via the second secure channel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computing device includes a first operating system and the second computing device includes a second operating system that is different from the first operating system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to replace a first version of the first monitoring tool with a second version of the first monitoring tool.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to reconfigure the first monitoring tool.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises one or more processors.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises a memory.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device of a first computing device, cause the processing device to:

establish a first secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device, and a second secure channel between the first computing device and the second computing device;

identify, by the processing device, a first monitoring tool to monitor one or more virtual machines and a second monitoring tool to monitor one or more physical devices;

determine, by the processing device, that the second computing device includes the first monitoring tool and does not include the second monitoring tool; and

transmit to the second computing device an executable that is different than the first monitoring tool and the second monitoring tool and that, when executed by the second computing device, causes the second computing device to;

execute the first monitoring tool, direct output from the first monitoring tool to the first computing device via the first secure channel, obtain from a designated location the second monitoring tool, install the second monitoring tool, execute the second monitoring tool, and direct output from the second monitoring tool to the first computing device via the second secure channel.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the first computing device includes a first operating system and the second computing device includes a second operating system that is different from the first operating system.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to obtain and install the first monitoring tool.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device replace a first version of the first monitoring tool with a second version of the first monitoring tool.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to reconfigure the first monitoring tool.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises one or more processors.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises a memory.

14. A first computing device, comprising:

a network interface device; and

a processing device, operatively coupled to the network interface device, to;

establish a first secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device, and a second secure channel between the first computing device and the second computing device;

identify a first monitoring tool to monitor one or more virtual machines and a second monitoring tool to monitor one or more physical devices;

determine that the second computing device includes the first monitoring tool and does not include the second monitoring tool; and

transmit to the second computing device, via the network interface, an executable that is different than the first monitoring tool and the second monitoring tool and that, when executed by the second computing device, causes the second computing device to;

execute the first monitoring tool, direct output from the first monitoring tool to the first computing device via the first secure channel, obtain from a designated location the second monitoring tool, install the second monitoring tool, execute the second monitoring tool, and direct output from the second monitoring tool to the first computing device via the second secure channel.

15. The first computing device of claim 14, wherein the first computing device includes a first operating system and the second computing device includes a second operating system that is different from the first operating system.

16. The first computing device of claim 14, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to replace a first version of the first monitoring tool with a second version of the first monitoring tool.

17. The first computing device of claim 14, wherein the executable, when executed by the second computing device, further causes the second computing device to reconfigure the first monitoring tool.

18. The first computing device of claim 14, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises one or more processors.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more physical devices comprises a memory.