Monitoring software provisioning

• US 9,477,570 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2008
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: DeHaan, Michael Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Mongbao
• Application Number:
  US12/198,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20100058307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,982 Days
• Field of Search: 717/717, 717168-178
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3065 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766

Abstract

A provisioning server can actively monitor the software provisioning processes being performed on a target machine to determine the status and integrity of the provisioning processes and notify an administrator or user of the status and integrity. The provisioning server can be configured to include a monitoring module and a message module. The monitoring module can be configured to monitor software provisioning processes being performed on a target machine and determine the status and integrity of the provisioning processes. The message module can be configured send notification to the administrator or user of the status and integrity of the provisioning processes.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing configuration information from a provisioning server over a network to a plurality of virtual machines at one or more target machines, wherein the configuration information comprises a task for a provisioning process that provisions software on the plurality of virtual machines;

causing the task from the configuration information to be performed during the provisioning process for a virtual machine among the plurality of virtual machines;

receiving a status message at the provisioning server from the virtual machine over the network, wherein the status message indicates an occurrence of an event within the virtual machine during the provisioning process, wherein the event comprises an error that causes the provisioning process to stall or terminate before completion of the provisioning process, and wherein the status message comprises details of the error;

parsing, by a processor at the provisioning server, the details of the error to extract a status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine, wherein the status indicates the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine; and

generating a notification message to notify a user of the status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine, wherein the notification message is generated at determined intervals during the provisioning process within the virtual machine.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising computing a possible status from status information of the virtual machine.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the notification message to the user.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the notification message is generated in response to the status indicating the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine.

5. A system comprising:

a network interface to a network; and

a processor at a provisioning server to communicate with the network interface to;

provide configuration information from the provisioning server over the network to a plurality of virtual machines at one or more target machines, wherein the configuration information comprises a task for a provisioning process that provisions software on the plurality of virtual machines,

cause the task from the configuration information to be performed during the provisioning process for a virtual machine among the plurality of virtual machines,

receive a status message from the virtual machine over the network via the network interface, wherein the status message indicates an occurrence of an event within the virtual machine during the provisioning process, wherein the event comprises an error that causes the provisioning process to stall or terminate before completion of the provisioning process, and wherein the status message comprises details of the error,

parse the details of the error to extract a status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine, wherein the status indicates the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine, and

generate a notification message to notify a user of the status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine wherein the notification message is generated at determined intervals during the provisioning process within the virtual machine.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the processor is further to compute a possible status from status information of the virtual machine.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the processor is further to transmit the notification message to the user.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the notification message is generated in response to the status indicating the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored therein that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

provide configuration information from a provisioning server over a network to a plurality of virtual machines at one or more target machines, wherein the configuration information comprises a task for a provisioning process that provisions software on the plurality of virtual machines;

cause the task from the configuration information to be performed during the provisioning process for a virtual machine among the plurality of virtual machines;

receive a status message at the provisioning server from the virtual machine over the network, wherein the status message indicates an occurrence of an event within the virtual machine during the provisioning process, wherein the event comprises an error that causes the provisioning process to stall or terminate before completion of the provisioning process, and wherein the status message comprises details of the error;

parse, by the processor at the provisioning server, the details of the error to extract a status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine, wherein the status indicates the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine; and

generate a notification message to notify a user of the status of the provisioning process within the virtual machine, wherein the notification message is generated at determined intervals during the provisioning process within the virtual machine.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the processor is further to compute a possible status from status information of the virtual machine.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the processor is further to transmit the notification message to the user.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the notification message is generated in response to the status indicating the error in the provisioning process within the virtual machine.