NETWORK TOPOLOGY-AWARE RECOVERY AUTOMATION

• US 20130205293A1
• Filed: 02/02/2012
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cortland Products Corp. (Alter Domus Luxembourg SARL)
• Original Assignee: Sungard Availability Services LP (Sungard Availability Services Capital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Levijarvi, Emmanuel Sheldon, Mitzev, Ognian Simeonov
• Granted Patent: US 9,612,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/177
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4416 Network booting; Remote initial program loading [RIPL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• 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

A computer system may be configured to deploy software to multiple target machines. A controller, based on a request, may select a target machine and an installation job. The controller may be configured to determine a machine location of the target machine. Based on the machine location, the installation job may be routed to a run queue. The run queue may comprise a set of dedicated workers that may service the installation job.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a controller configured to deploy software to a plurality of target machines, each target machine arranged in one of a plurality of groups of target machines, each group of target machines coupled to the controller via a corresponding network segment of a plurality of network segments of a network, wherein the controller further comprises;

a job request queue configured to determine, based on a user request, a target machine from the plurality of target machines and an installation job from a plurality of installation jobs, the user request comprising a machine name, and the target machine comprised of a hardware environment; and

a job dispatcher coupled to the job request queue, the job dispatcher configured to determine a machine location of the target machine, the job dispatcher further configured to route the installation job to one of a plurality of run queues based on the machine location of the target machine, wherein each run queue in the plurality of run queues is comprised of a dedicated set of workers, and each run queue is coupled to one network segment of the plurality of network segments.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of installation jobs are stored within the plurality of run queues, and the dedicated set of workers are configured to service the plurality of installation jobs.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the installation job is configured to install an operating system having the operating system name on the target machine.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one other target machine in the plurality of target machines is comprised of a different hardware environment than the hardware environment of the target machine.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control each of the plurality of target machines.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine an available bandwidth of each of the network segments;

monitor a bandwidth requirement of the target machine; and

based on the bandwidth requirement of the target machine and the available bandwidth of one of the network segments, provision the target machine at a specific time.

7. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising a user interface configured to receive the use request and display a status of each of the plurality of installation jobs.

8. A computer-implemented method of deploying software to at least one target machine in a plurality of target machines, each target machine arranged in one of a plurality of groups of target machines, and each group of target machines coupled to a corresponding network segment of a plurality of network segments of a network, the method comprising:

receiving a request comprising a machine name and an operating system name;

selecting, by a controller and based on the request, a target machine from the plurality of target machines and an installation job from a plurality of installation jobs;

determining a machine location of the target machine, the machine location corresponding to the network segment to which the target machine is coupled;

routing, based on the machine location, the installation job to one of a plurality of run queues, each run queue in the plurality of run queues comprising a set of dedicated workers and corresponding to a group of target machines coupled to a particular network segment of the network.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

servicing, by one of the set of workers, the installation job in one of the run queues.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

installing the operating system associated with the operating system name on the target machine.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving another user request comprising another machine name and another operating system name;

determining, by the controller and based on the other user request, another target machine from the plurality of target machines and another installation job from the plurality of installation jobs;

determining another machine location of the other target machine;

routing, based on the other machine location, the other installation job to another one of the plurality of run queues;

installing, via the network segment corresponding to the one run queue and the target machine, the operating system on the target machine; and

while installing the operating system on the target machine, installing, via another network segment corresponding to the other run queue and the other target machine, the other operating system on the other target machine.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the other target machine is comprised of a different hardware environment than a hardware environment of the target machine.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

controlling, by the controller, each of the target machines in the plurality of target machines.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining an available bandwidth of each of a plurality of network segments, each network segment coupled to the controller and a corresponding one of the plurality of groups of target machines;

monitoring a bandwidth requirement of the target machine; and

based on the bandwidth requirement of the target machine and the available bandwidth of a network segment coupled to the target machine, booting the target machine at a specific time.

15. The method claim 10, further comprising:

monitoring the controller and the target machine;

receiving, via the controller, the installation job;

in response to the installation job, changing a deployment event in a user interface of the controller to a setup state;

when the operating system is installed on the target machine, providing a job completed alert to the user interface of the controller; and

displaying, by the user interface, an indication of the job completed alert.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting an error while installing the operating system on the target machine;

reporting the error to a user interface of the controller; and

displaying, by the user interface, an indication of the error.

17. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

removing, by the controller, an installed operating system from an installed target machine of one of the groups of target machines.