MONITORING THE HEALTH OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

摘要

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring the health of distributed systems. Embodiments of the invention provide distributed, self-maintained, continuous health monitoring. Using XML and pluggable infrastructure, a logical view of an appliance can be provided. The logical view abstracts physical implementation details of the appliance. Monitoring agents can correlate different distributed system failures and events and reason over collected health information.

主权项

1. A computer storage device storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one hardware processor, implement a method for configuring a computer system to monitor a portion of an appliance implemented at a distributed system that includes a plurality of different computer systems, the method comprising:
an act of accessing an appliance definition file; an act of selecting a type of node, from among a plurality of different types of nodes with functionality defined by the appliance definition file; an act of implementing the selected node type at the computer system in accordance with the defined functionality; an act of reading a health file that identifies components that are to be monitored for the selected node type; an act of loading a monitor agent to monitor the identified components; an act collecting health information indicating the health of the identified components; and an act of transferring the collected health information to a repository, wherein the collected health information is aggregated for identified components within the plurality of computer systems so as to represent a logical health view of the appliance, the logical health view abstracted from the identified components within the plurality of computer systems.