Spontaneous resource management
View Patent ↗Techniques for spontaneous resource management are provided. Information about resources is indexed and housed in a repository. The information is dynamically updated. Search queries are performed against the indexed information in the repository for purposes of forming dynamic groupings of the resources that are then managed as custom-defined and dynamic groups.
1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
regularly receiving broadcast messages from managed services of an enterprise over a network;
indexing the broadcast messages in a repository; without changing the broadcast messages and each broadcast message indicating the standards to which it adheres and indicating what each managed service associated with a particular broadcast message is doing and what it is, what the each managed service is doing is indicated by what is loaded and processing on a particular device for that managed service; and
subsequently permitting additional information obtained for each managed service to be viewed as a blog, the additional information is related to each managed service and the additional information for selectively identifying particular ones of the managed service that form a managed group of services that a management tool dynamically manages as a logical entity, the managed services are one or more of: services, servers, proxies, and storage devices, and the additional information obtained by periodic searches of a repository that is a self-organizing server, the periodic searches dynamically alters membership in the managed group by adding new managed service and removing existing managed services permitting the membership to chaotically change based on dynamic conditions that change with each of the managed services and the membership is automatically updated when the dynamic conditions are evaluated and warrant addition or removal from the membership, each service dynamically self-populates itself to the particular groups and each of the service dynamically self adds and removes itself from the particular groups as circumstances warrant based on the evaluation of the conditions.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein regularly receiving further includes receiving the broadcast messages as part of heartbeat messages emanating from servers that process the managed services.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein regularly receiving further includes periodically performing queries against the managed services to acquire additional information for each of the managed services that is indexed within the repository with the broadcast messages and available to the search of the management tool.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein performing further includes inspecting install logs and comments located in headers and source code for the managed services when performing the queries.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein indexing further includes using a World-Wide Web (WWW) search engine to perform the indexing of the broadcast messages within the repository and wherein the management tool uses the search engine to subsequently perform the search.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein indexing further includes maintaining the repository as one or more of: a file, a set of files, a directory, a set of directories, a relational database, a set of relational databases organized as a data warehouse, a dynamically maintained document, a set of dynamically maintained documents, an object, a set of objects, an object oriented database, a set of object oriented databases, and a hybrid database.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein subsequently permitting further includes returning a relevancy rating for each particular managed service that is returned when the management tool performs the search against the repository, and wherein the management tool selectively picks each member of the managed group in response to that member's relevancy rating.