Using a single deployer agent to deploy a plurality of programs on a server

• US 10,592,223 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2014
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Savio, Alex Dominic, Mulla, Shameembanu Dastagirsaheb
• Primary Examiner(s): Sough, S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wei, Zheng
• Application Number:
  US15/303,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20170031670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,077 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/12 Applying verification of the received information cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

Some examples described herein relate to deployment of a plurality of programs on a server in a cloud network. An example method may include using a single deployer agent on a server to deploy the plurality of programs on the server, wherein the plurality of programs are deployed from different sources via same port on the server.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

exchanging security information, by a single monitoring agent on a server, with a plurality of source devices via a first communication port of a plurality of communication ports of the server, wherein each source device of the plurality of source devices comprises a unique application program of a plurality of application programs;

deploying on the server, by the single monitoring agent, the plurality of application programs from the plurality of source devices via the first communication port of the server, wherein deploying the plurality of application programs is performed without using any other agent installed on the server, wherein the single monitoring agent on the server is to interact with a plurality of deployer modules on the plurality of source devices during deployment of the plurality of application programs;

monitoring, by the single monitoring agent, the deployed plurality of application programs on the server via the first communication port of the server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising installing the single monitoring agent on the server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the single monitoring agent is installed using a DevOps tool.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the plurality of application programs on the server comprises measuring, by the single monitoring agent, performance measures of the deployed plurality of application programs.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein exchanging the security information comprises the single monitoring agent exchanging, via the first communication port of the server, a security certificate with each of the plurality of application programs prior to the deployment of the plurality of application programs on the server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the server does not include any deployer agent specific to one of the plurality of application programs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of deployer modules is associated with a unique one of the plurality of application programs, and wherein none of the plurality of deployer modules is installed on the server.

8. A system, comprising:

a plurality of source servers, each storing a unique one of a plurality of application programs; and

a physical server connected to the plurality of source servers via a network, wherein the physical server includes a single monitoring agent and a plurality of communication ports, wherein the single monitoring agent is to;

exchange security information with the plurality of source servers via a first communication port of the physical server;

deploy, via the first communication port of the physical server, the plurality of application programs on the physical server without using any other agent installed on the physical server, wherein the plurality of application programs are deployed from the plurality of source servers, wherein the single monitoring agent on the physical server is to interact with a plurality of deployer modules on the plurality of source servers during deployment of the plurality of application programs; and

monitor the deployed plurality of application programs on the physical server via the first communication port of the physical server.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein no agent specific to one of the plurality of application programs is installed on the physical server.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the single monitoring agent is to monitor performance measures of the deployed plurality of application programs via the first communication port of the physical server.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the exchanged security information comprises a security certificate.

12. The system of claim 8, further comprising a deployer module to deploy the single monitoring agent on the physical server.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein each of the plurality of deployer modules is associated with a unique one of the plurality of application programs, and wherein none of the plurality of deployer modules is installed on the physical server.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

exchange, by a single monitoring agent on a server, security information with a plurality of source devices via a first communication port of the server, wherein each source device of the plurality of source devices comprises a unique program of a plurality of application programs;

deploy, by the single monitoring agent, the plurality of application programs on the server, wherein each of the plurality of application programs is deployed via the first communication port without using any other agent installed on the server, wherein the single monitoring agent on the server is to interact with a plurality of deployer modules on the plurality of source devices during deployment of the plurality of application programs; and

monitor, by the single monitoring agent, the deployed plurality of application programs on the server via the first communication port of the server.

15. The storage medium of claim 14, the instructions further executable to install the single monitoring agent on the server.

16. The storage medium of claim 14, the instructions further executable to measure, by the single monitoring agent, performance measures of the plurality of deployed application programs on the server.

17. The storage medium of claim 16, wherein the performance measures are defined in a monitoring policy that is deployed during deployment of the plurality of application programs on the server.

18. The storage medium of claim 14, wherein the exchanged security information comprises a security certificate.

19. The storage medium of claim 14, wherein the server does not include any deployer agent specific to one of the plurality of application programs.

20. The storage medium of claim 14, wherein each of the plurality of deployer modules is associated with a unique one of the plurality of application programs, and wherein none of the plurality of deployer modules is installed on the server.