System and method for supporting dynamic offloading of video processing for user account management in a computing environment

摘要

A system and method can support user account management in a computing environment. A managing server, such as a privileged account manager server, can use an agent to manage a target system in the computing environment. The agent on the target system can initiate a video processing task based on a plurality of user session screens recorded on the target system, wherein the video processing task encodes the plurality of user session screens into a video. Furthermore, the agent can determine whether a resource usage for performing the video processing task on the target system exceeds a threshold. Then, the agent can dynamically offload the video processing task to a managing server that operates to manage the target system, if the resource usage for performing the video processing task on the target system exceeds the threshold.

主权项

1. A method for supporting privileged account management in a computing environment comprising a privileged account manager server and a target system wherein a plurality of users share access to a privileged account on the target system, the method comprising:
providing a privileged account manager operating on the privileged account manager server; providing a recording agent operating on the target system; receiving at the privileged account manager a request to access said privileged account on the target system from a particular user of the plurality of users; providing said particular user with one-time access to a privileged account session for said privileged account on the target system in response to said request wherein said one-time access is terminated when said privileged account session is ended; detecting establishment of said privileged account session for said privileged account on the target system with the recording agent; in response to said detecting, capturing with the recording agent, a plurality of user session screens associated with said privileged account session; initiating, via the recording agent on the target system, a video processing task, wherein the video processing task encodes the plurality of user session screens captured by the recording agent into a video; determining with said recording agent whether a resource usage for performing the video processing task on the target system exceeds a threshold; dynamically offloading the video processing task to the privileged account manager server, if the resource usage for performing the video processing task on the target system exceeds the threshold; and storing said video on said privileged account manager server.