MONITORING SYSTEM OF COMPUTER AND MONITORING METHOD

• US 20120117226A1
• Filed: 11/02/2011
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: TANAKA, Tsuyoshi, KAWAMOTO, Shinichi, UEHARA, Keitaro
• Application Number:
  US13/287,160
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0266 using meta-data, objects or commands for formatting management information, e.g. using eXtensible markup language [XML]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service

Abstract

There is provided a monitoring system capable of representing relationships of computer resources that virtual servers use in a tree structure and aggregating the performance statistics of the virtual resources sharing physical resources. The monitoring system has: a virtualization module that makes virtual computers operate; and a monitoring module for monitoring the physical computers and components of the virtual computers. The monitoring module designates the physical computer and the components of the virtualizing module as base resources, manages the components of the virtual computers as virtual resources, generates a platform tree by extracting a tree structure from the virtual resources and the components of the base resources for predetermined platforms, generates a service provision tree by extracting a tree structure having the base or virtual resources as starting points, and establishes a reference relationship for the components contained in the platform tree and also contained in the service provision tree.

Claims

1. A monitoring system of a computer, comprising:

one or more physical computers;

a virtualization module that is executed by the physical computers to make one or more virtual computers operate;

the one or more virtual computers that operate on the virtualization module; and

a monitoring module for monitoring components of the physical computers and components of the virtual computers;

wherein the monitoring module

designates physical resources that are the components of the physical computers and the components of the virtualization module conjunctionally as base resources,

manages the components of the virtual computers operating on the virtualization module as virtual resources,

generates a platform tree by extracting a tree structure from the components of the virtual resources and the components of the base resources for every predetermined platform,

generates a service provision tree by extracting a tree structure that has the base resources being configured by predetermined transformation information or the virtual resources as its starting points from the components of the virtual resources,

configures reference information indicating referring to the components that are contained in the platform tree and are contained in the service provision tree, and

establishes reference relationships of the components between the platform tree and the service provision tree.

2. The monitoring system of a computer according to claim 1,

further comprising a performance statistics collector for generating performance statistics by collecting operation information of the base resources and the virtual resources and performing a predetermined statistical processing on the operation information,

wherein the monitoring module gives unique identifies to the base resources, the virtual resources, and the performance statistics, respectively, and

sets the identifiers of the base resources or the virtual resources that were collected from the operation information as the parent identifier in the performance statistics.

3. The monitoring system of a computer according to claim 1,

wherein the transformation information configures a higher-rank component for generating the virtual resources by visualizing or logicalizing the component among the components of the base resources, and

a lower-rank component that is obtained by visualizing or logicalizing the higher-rank component to generate a virtual resource and by dividing it into a plurality of components.

4. The monitoring system of a computer according to claim 3,

wherein the monitoring module has a GUI control module for outputting the component of the higher-rank components, the component of the lower-rank components, and the performance statistics of the higher-rank components and the lower-rank components as on a single screen.

5. The monitoring system of a computer according to claim 4,

wherein the GUI control module accepts the component of the higher-rank components or the lower-rank components and outputs the configuration information that has been related with the accepted component.

6. A computer monitoring method for monitoring resources of a computer that is for a monitoring system comprising:

one or more physical computers;

a virtualization module that is executed by the physical computers to make one or more virtual computers operate;

the one or more virtual computers operating on the virtualization module;

components of the physical computers; and

components of the virtual computers;

including;

a first step where the monitoring module acquires the components of physical resources and the components of the virtualization module, respectively, and manages them as base resources;

a second step where the monitoring module acquires the components of the virtual computers operating on the virtualization module and manages them as virtual resources;

a third step where the monitoring module generate a platform tree by extracting a tree structure of the components of the virtual resources and the components of the base resources for every predetermined platform;

a fourth step of generating a service provision tree by extracting a tree structure that has the base resources being configured by predetermined transformation information or the virtual resources as its starting points from the components of the virtual resources; and

a fifth step of configuring reference information that indicates referring to the components contained in the platform tree and also contained in the service provision tree and establishing reference relationships of the components of the platform tree and the service provision tree.

7. The method for monitoring a computer according to claim 6,

further comprising:

a sixth step where the monitoring module collects the operation information of the base resources and the virtual resources and generates the performance statistics by performing a predetermined statistical processing on the operation information; and

a seventh step where the monitoring module gives unique identifiers to the base resources, the virtual resource, and the performance statistics, and configures the identifiers of the base resources or the virtual resources whose operation information is collected as the identifiers of the parent in the performance statistics.

8. The method for monitoring a computer according to claim 6,

wherein the transformation information configures higher-rank components for generating virtual resources by virtualizing or logicalizing the components among the components of the base resources

and lower-rank components that divide the higher-rank components into a plurality of components of the virtual resources by virtualizing or logicalizing the higher-rank components.

9. The method for monitoring a computer according to claim 8,

further comprising an eighth step

wherein the monitoring module outputs the component of the higher-rank components, the component of the lower-rank components, and the performance statistics of the higher-rank components and the lower-rank components as on a single screen.

10. The monitoring method of a computer according to claim 9,

wherein in the eighth step, the monitoring module accepts the component of the higher-rank components or the lower-rank components and outputs the performance statistics that has been related the accepted component.