Portable management

• US 9,063,725 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Tseitlin, Ariel D., Kearns, Daniel, Kilgore, William B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEBERT, THEODORE E
• Application Number:
  US11/426,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20070260629A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,287 Days
• Field of Search: 717/137
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/31 Programming languages or programming paradigms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A method is provided. The method composes management code in a platform independent managed object format. Further, the management code is utilized to manage at least one object. In addition, the management code transforms the management code into a plurality of portable management objects and a plurality of native management objects.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

composing management code in a platform independent managed object format, wherein

the management code provides a management architecture,

the management architecture is configured to integrate communication between a management application and at least one managed resource in a target environment, and

the management application is configured to manage the at least one managed resource; and

transforming the management code into one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects,

wherein

the one or more portable management objects comprise

at least one portable interface configured to provide the management application with access to the at least one managed resource,

the one or more native management objects comprise

a first adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a first native management infrastructure of a first computing platform, and

a second adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a second native management infrastructure of a second computing platform,

the first computing platform is incompatible with the second computing platform, and

the target environment comprises at least one of the first and second computing platforms.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

packaging the one or more portable and native management objects with code for an application service to produce an enterprise module, wherein

the packaging is performed in a build environment,

the enterprise module is configured to provide the application service in the target environment, and

the at least one managed resource comprises the enterprise module.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the one or more portable management objects further comprise

a first object derived from a first class configured to access the at least one managed resource, and

a second object derived from a second class configured to implement functionality of the at least one managed resource,

the at least one portable interface comprises a proxy file comprising the first class configured to access the at least one managed resource, and

the at least one portable interface comprises a stub file comprising the second class configured to implement functionality of the at least one managed resource.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects are configured to implement the management architecture in the target environment.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein

the packaging of the enterprise module is configured to customize the code for at least one of the first computing platform and the second computing platform, and

the enterprise module comprises an executable application configured to execute on at least one of the first computing platform and the second computing platform, as a result of the packaging of the enterprise module.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising

the first native management infrastructure is configured for management data and operations in at least one of a Windows operating system environment and a Java environment.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein

the management application is configured to monitor performance of the at least one managed resource via the management architecture,

the management application is configured to monitor performance of the at least one managed resource via the management architecture,

the management architecture comprises a plurality of agents, and

each of the plurality of agents is configured to be communicatively coupled to a respective one of the at least one managed resource and to the management application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one managed resource further comprises at least one of a native computing platform, computer network, and computer application components.

15. The method of claim 3, wherein

the management application is further configured to monitor health of the at least one managed resource via the management architecture,

the second class is used as an object provider base class,

the second object comprises an object provider for the at least one managed resource,

the object provider is derived from the object provider base class, and

the object provider implements management of the at least one managed resource.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein

the management application comprises a native management application of the target environment.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein

the at least one managed resource is configured to provide a performance metric to the management application via the management architecture, and

the performance metric indicates status of the at least one managed resource.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein

the management architecture is configured to implement management operations invoked by the management application.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein

the at least one managed resource comprises a lifecycle,

the management operations comprise lifecycle control operations, and

the lifecycle control operations comprise ones of operations related to deployment, installation, start, execution, stop, maintain, and uninstallation of the at least one managed resource.

20. The method of claim 7, wherein

each of the plurality of agents is configured as a respective adapter to communicatively couple the respective one of the at least one managed resource with the management application.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein

each of the at least one managed resource is configured to utilize an information model,

the information model defines data and operations of each of the at least one managed resource,

each of the plurality of agents are configured to utilize a communication model,

the communication model defines operations and protocols to access the information model, and

the management architecture is configured to implement management operations invoked by the management application via the communication model and the information model.

22. The method of claim 7, wherein

the management architecture further comprises a plurality of managers, and

each of the plurality of managers is configured to

aggregate any management information received from the at least one managed resource via the plurality of agents into a decreased quantity of management information, and

forward the decreased quantity of management information to the management application.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein

each of the plurality of managers represents a logical group of a plurality of managed resources, and

the logical group is based on at least one of

physical characteristics of the plurality of managed resources, and

business characteristics of the plurality of managed resources.

24. The method of claim 5, further comprising

deploying the enterprise module from the build environment to the target environment, wherein

the executable application comprises a first collection of computer-executable code that is compiled and linked in the build environment.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the deploying the enterprise module comprises

providing the enterprise module to the target environment, and

installing the enterprise module in the target environment.

9. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, said memory storing instructions executable by the processor and executable to

compose management code in a platform independent managed object format, wherein

the management code provides a management architecture,

the management architecture is configured to integrate communication between a management application and at least one managed resource in a target environment, and

the management application is configured to manage the at least one managed resource; and

transform the management code into one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects, wherein

the one or more portable management objects comprise

at least one portable interface configured to provide the management application with access to the at least one managed resource,

the one or more native management objects comprise

a first adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a first native management infrastructure of a first computing platform, and

a second adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a second native management infrastructure of a second computing platform,

the first computing platform is incompatible with the second computing platform, and

the target environment comprises at least one of the first and second computing platforms.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein

the one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects are configured to implement the management architecture in the target environment.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the management application is configured to monitor performance of the at least one managed resource via the management architecture,

the management architecture comprises a plurality of agents, and

each of the plurality of agents is configured to be communicatively coupled to a respective one of the at least one managed resource and to the management application.

12. A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions which when executed perform a method comprising:

composing management code in a platform independent managed object format, wherein

the management code provides a management architecture,

the management architecture is configured to integrate communication between a management application and at least one managed resource in a target environment, and

the management application is configured to manage the at least one managed resource; and

transforming the management code into one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects, wherein

the one or more portable management objects comprise

at least one portable interface configured to provide the management application with access to the at least one managed resource,

the one or more native management objects comprise

a first adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a first native management infrastructure of a first computing platform, and

a second adapter configured to adapt the at least one portable interface to interact with a second native management infrastructure of a second computing platform,

the first computing platform is incompatible with the second computing platform, and

the target environment comprises at least one of the first and second computing platforms.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 12, wherein

the one or more portable management objects and one or more native management objects are configured to implement the management architecture in the target environment.

14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 13, wherein

the management application is configured to monitor performance of the at least one managed resource via the management architecture,

the management architecture comprises a plurality of agents, and

each of the plurality of agents is configured to be communicatively coupled to a respective one of the at least one managed resource and to the management application.