System and method for providing a rest-based management service in a traffic director environment

摘要

Described herein are systems and methods for providing software administration tools, for use in administering server configurations, such as in a traffic director or other type of server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a traffic director having one or more traffic director instances, which is configured to receive and communicate requests, from clients, to origin servers having one or more pools of servers. An administration server can be used to manage the traffic director, including a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) infrastructure and management service which maps REST calls to mbeans or other management components registered on the administration server, for use in managing the traffic director.

主权项

1. A system for providing secured management of a network server environment, comprising:
one or more computer servers, including one or more server instances operating thereon, wherein the server instances are managed using one or more management software components provided at the one or more computer servers and associated with the server instances; an administration server, which is used to manage the server instances, wherein the administration server includes a configuration store having a plurality of defined configurations, when each configuration includes a collection of configurable elements and is deployable to determine a run-time behavior of a server instance, and wherein the management software components are registered with the administration server; and a management service that includes a security component, provided at the administration server, which authenticates calls received from administration interfaces directed to the management software components registered with the administration server, for use in managing the server instances; wherein the management service is provided as a Representational State Transfer (REST) management service and includes a web service which provides a mapping between a REST URI space and respective calls to the management software components registered with the administration server, and provides a mapping between hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) calls received at the management service and the management software components registered with the administration server, including that the management service
authenticates an entity associated with management requests with the security component,provides a token to be included as part of a request header of subsequent management requests received as HTTP calls to the management service, andupon receipt of a subsequent management request, verifies presence of the token in a request header of the subsequent management request, prior to passing the subsequent management request as a call to the management software components to at least one of configure or manage the server instances.