MONITORING, DIAGNOSING, AND REPAIRING A MANAGEMENT DATABASE IN A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A lightweight always-on monitoring, collecting, diagnosing, and correcting utility operates in an enhanced storage manager that manages a data storage managements system. The always-on utility provides a comprehensive and pro-active approach, which is intended to reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the need for after-the-fact diagnostics. The always-on utility also enforces so-called best practices and other heuristics, which include pro-actively activating certain database settings that are not enabled by default; manipulating certain aspects of the database to improve performance; and reporting aspects that are outside best-practice parameters to the trouble report system so that system administrators and/or developers may intervene before a catastrophic failure occurs. In some cases, the best-practice parameters represent heuristics designed by the present inventors to improve the performance and general health of the management database.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a computing device for executing a storage manager for managing a data storage management system,
wherein the computing device comprises one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable memory for executing programming instructions from the computer-readable memory; a database management system associated with the storage manager,
wherein the database management system comprises a database that stores information used by the storage manager to manage the data storage management system, including to manage data storage operations in the data storage management system, andwherein the database management system comprises a plurality of native utilities for performing database management operations; and wherein the storage manager is programmed to:
monitor the database during active operation of the data storage management system,diagnose a problem associated with the database, based on information about the database collected in the monitor operation, andcorrect the diagnosed problem, at least in part, by instructing the database management system to perform a database management operation using one or more native utilities among the plurality of native utilities.