Accessing and processing monitoring data resulting from customized monitoring of system activities

• US 9,363,107 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• 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): Woolcock, Madhu
• Application Number:
  US12/898,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084436A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,072 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3485 for I/O devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/88 Monitoring involving counting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

A mechanism for accessing and processing monitoring data resulting from customized monitoring of system activities. A method of embodiments of the invention includes invoking, via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a performance monitor at a host computer system to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems. The CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system. The method further includes accessing monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

invoking, using a start command via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a universal performance monitor at a host computer system,

wherein the host computer system is remote from the CLI shell console and is associated with a plurality of monitoring tools according to information defined in user customized monitoring templates that consolidate the plurality of monitoring tools to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems hosting a plurality of virtual machines,

wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer to access and process monitored data received from the universal performance monitor and further provides host performance information via a common interface to the host computer system independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system, and

wherein the activities to be monitored pertain to one or more processors, memory and virtual machines on the one or more computer systems;

in response to a stop command requesting to stop the monitoring of the activities, initiating stopping, by a processing device executing the CLI shell console, of the monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor; and

causing display, by the CLI shell console, of the monitored data received by the abstraction layer, wherein the monitored data is generated from the monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the universal performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate the monitoring by the plurality of monitoring tools of the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the universal performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities of the one or more computer systems, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the universal performance monitor.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the stopping is initiated by entering the stop command using an access interface of the CLI shell console.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing, via a data access layer, the monitored data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising collecting, via the data access layer, results of the analyzing of the monitored data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising providing results of the analyzing via the CLI shell console.

7. A system comprising:

a host computing device, which is remote from a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, having a memory to store instructions for the CLI shell console and a processing device to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processing device to;

invoke, using a start command via the CLI shell console, a universal performance monitor at the host computing device to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computing devices hosting a plurality of virtual machines, wherein the host computing device is associated with a plurality of monitoring tools according to information defined in user customized monitoring templates that consolidate the plurality of monitoring tools, wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer to access and process monitored data received from the universal performance monitor and further provides host performance information via a common interface to the host computer system independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system, and wherein the activities to be monitored pertain to one or more processors, memory, and virtual machines on the one or more computing devices;

in response to a stop command requesting to stop the monitoring of the activities, by the CLI shell console, initiate stopping of the monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor; and

cause display, by the CLI shell console, of the monitored data received by the abstraction layer, wherein the monitored data is generated from the monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the universal performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate the monitoring by the plurality of monitoring tools of the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the universal performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities of the one or more computing devices, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the universal performance monitor.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the stopping is initiated by entering the stop command using an access interface of the CLI shell console.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the processing device is further to analyze, via a data access layer, the monitored data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to collect, via the data access layer, results of the analysis of the monitored data.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to provide results of analyzing via the CLI shell console.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method, comprising:

invoking, using a start command via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a universal performance monitor at a host computer system,

wherein the host computer system is remote from the CLI shell console and is associated with a plurality of monitoring tools according to information defined in user customized monitoring templates that consolidate the plurality of monitoring tools to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems hosting a plurality of virtual machines, wherein the CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer to access and process monitored data received from the universal performance monitor and further provides host performance information via a common interface to the host computer system independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system, and

wherein the activities to be monitored pertain to one or more processors, memory and virtual machines on the one or more computer systems;

in response to a stop command requesting to stop the monitoring of the activities, initiating stopping, by the CLI shell console, of the monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor; and

causing display, by the CLI shell console, of the monitored data received by the abstraction layer, wherein the monitored data is generated from monitoring of the activities by the universal performance monitor.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the universal performance monitor serves as a universal monitoring tool to facilitate the monitoring by the plurality of monitoring tools of the activities of the plurality of system components, wherein invoking comprises:

preparing monitoring information to invoke the universal performance monitor, wherein the monitoring information includes identifying data relating to the activities of the one or more computer systems, and one or more invocation commands; and

communicating the monitoring information from an access interface of the CLI shell console to a performance monitor interface of the universal performance monitor.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the stopping is initiated by entering the stop command using an access interface of the CLI shell console.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises analyzing, via a data access layer, the monitored data.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises collecting, via the data access layer, results of the analyzing of the monitored data.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises providing results of the analyzing via the CLI shell console.