Enabling application response measurement
US6633908B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 16, 1999 |
| Grant date | Oct 14, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 16, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/046
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention relates to the area of systems management teaching means and a method for determining and managing application performance. Application Response Measurement (ARM) assumes that the managed application is a self-instrumented component. This requires invasive changes to existing applications or to add explicitly code to newly written applications. Due to this additional effort this will restrict the area of applicability of ARM. The basic idea of the present invention is to instrument not the application components. The present invention contemplates instrumenting the invocation agent instead, which in turn is responsible to call the application for execution. This solution provides application response measurement without any modification of the application being measured. It is the invocation agent that makes the appropriate ARM calls to furnish the instrumentation on behalf of the application.
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