System and method of semantically modelling and monitoring applications and software architecture hosted by an IaaS provider
US9419917B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 31, 2013 |
| Grant date | Aug 16, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 21, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a monitoring system for automatically inferring, without human modelling input or information regarding actual physical network connectivity, a service architecture of a widely distributed service operated by an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) tenant but deployed on a set of virtual resources controlled by an independent IaaS provider. The monitoring system can collect infrastructure metadata and/or system-level metric data characterizing the set of virtual resources from the IaaS provider, and automatically infer from the metadata and/or metric data how the virtual resources should be organized into groups, clusters and hierarchies. The monitoring system can automatically infer this service architecture using naming conventions, security rules, software types, deployment patterns, and other information gleaned from the metadata and/or metric data. The monitoring system can then run analytics based on this inferred service architecture to report on service operation.
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