Management of monitoring sessions between monitoring clients and monitoring target server

摘要

A system includes a monitoring management server, a monitoring target server, and one or more monitoring clients. The management server determines monitoring parameters for each client. The monitoring parameters specify at least when a client is to begin a monitoring session with the target server and when the client is to end the session with the target server. The management server determines the monitoring parameters for each client such that a predetermined maximum number of monitoring sessions performed within each time period is never exceeded by the target server. Each client receives monitoring parameters from the management server in response to a request initiated by the client, initiates a monitoring session with the target server in accordance with the monitoring parameters, and reports results of the monitoring session to the management server upon the monitoring session ending.