High level operational support system
View Patent ↗A high level Operational Support System (OSS) framework provides the infrastructure and analytical system to enable all applications and systems to be managed dynamically at runtime regardless of platform or programming technology. Applications are automatically discovered and managed. Java applications have the additional advantage of auto-inspection (through reflection) to determine their manageability. Resources belonging to application instances are associated and managed with that application instance. This provides operators the ability to not only manage an application, but its distributed components as well. They are presented as belonging to a single application instance node that can be monitored, analyzed, and managed. The OSS framework provides the platform-independent infrastructure that heterogeneous applications require to be monitored, controlled, analyzed and managed at runtime. New and legacy applications written in C++ or Java are viewed and manipulated identically with zero coupling between the applications themselves and the tools that scrutinize them.
1. A method of providing a high level support framework, comprising:
monitoring from a physical server a health of a plurality of client applications and a health of said plurality of client applications' distributed components, using a common monitoring protocol, said monitoring being independent of a programming technology of said plurality of client applications and respective distributed components;
assessing said health of said plurality of client applications and said respective distributed components; and
associating said health of said plurality of client applications and said respective distributed components as belonging to a single application node.
2. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , wherein:
a first of said plurality of client applications is C++ language based; and
a second of said plurality of client applications is Java language based.
3. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , wherein:
a first of said plurality of client applications utilizes a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management service.
4. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , wherein:
a first of said plurality of client applications utilizes a Java Management Extensions (JMX) management service.
5. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , wherein:
a first of said plurality of client applications utilizes a Transaction Language 1 (TL1) management service.
6. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , wherein:
a first of said plurality of client applications utilizes a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management service;
a second of said plurality of client applications utilize a Java Management Extensions (JMX) management service; and
a third of said plurality of client applications utilize a Transaction Language 1 (TL1) management service.
7. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , further comprising:
maintaining fault management data relating to said plurality of client applications.
8. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , further comprising:
maintaining performance measurement data relating to said plurality of client applications.
9. The method of providing a high level support framework according to claim 1 , further comprising:
supporting any of an RDBM, a flat file, and an XML document type in a persistent storage mechanism accessed by said high level support framework.