POLICY BASED APPLICATION MONITORING IN VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A method is provided for an agent in a virtual machine (VM) and an application policy manager to implement application monitoring and remediation. The application policy manager provides a user interface for defining policies for applications running on VMs where each policy includes monitoring conditions and remediation for the monitoring conditions. The application policy manager receives a policy for an application on the VM and sends it to the agent. The agent monitors the application based on the policy. When the agent detects a monitoring condition, the agent sends an alert identifying the application and the monitoring condition directly or indirectly to an events and alarms manager that records the alert, sends a log generated by the application to an email address or to an log analyzer that analyzes the log to determine a cause of the monitoring condition, and performs a remediation for the monitoring condition.

主权项

1: A method for an application policy manager and an agent to implement policy-based application monitoring and remediation in a virtual machine (VM) system, the agent being in a VM on a host, the method comprising:
the application policy manager providing a user interface for defining policies on applications running on VMs, each policy comprising one or more monitoring conditions and one or more remediation for the one or more monitoring conditions; the application policy manager receiving a policy for an application on the VM via the user interface; the application policy manager sending the policy to the agent; the agent monitoring the application based on the policy; when the agent detects a monitoring condition, the agent:
sending an alert identifying the application and the monitoring condition directly to an events and alarms manager or indirectly to the events and alarms manager via the application policy manager, wherein the events and alarms manager records the alert;sending a log generated by the application to an email address, directly to a log analyzer or indirectly to the log analyzer via the application policy manager, wherein the log analyzer analyzes the log to determine a cause of the monitoring condition; andperforming a remediation for the monitoring condition.