Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brijesh D Bhatia

Vij Rajarajan

Casey Kiernan

Mel MacMahon

Kishnan Nedungadi

Vitaly Voloshin

Ilarie Letca

Anandha K Ganesan

Ferit Findik

Kevin Hodge

Andrew Hayes

James David Johnston

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Lorenzo Rizzi

Cary Lane Rohwer

Lauren Beth Gallagher

Tom Martino

Annette B Hall

Audrius Zimnicks

Travis Austin Wright

Ian C Jirka

Varsha Jayasimha

Marc D Reyhner

Abbot Moffat

Sandeep Phadke

Audrius Zimnickas

Vladimir Joanovic

Stefan C Negritoiu

Jeff Robison

Technologies are described herein for cloud monitoring federations that can include cloud monitoring services (CMS) that collect monitoring information from point of presence (POP) agents. The cloud monitoring POPs may be located in the cloud, on client machines, embedded within cloud applications, or wherever they can obtain visibility into managed entities associated with the cloud. Management systems, acting as cloud monitoring clients (CMC), may interface with the CMS to obtain a complete view of services and application used by their enterprise including those that operate outside of the enterprise premises as part of a cloud or outside network. The publishing by POPs and consumption by CMCs of management information across components within the enterprise and out in the cloud may be supported by managing roles, responsibilities, scopes, security boundaries, authenticity of information, service level agreements, and other aspects of cloud monitoring operations.

Monitoring federation for cloud based services and applications

A device monitoring system for monitoring a device comprising: a database including a health record for the device; a heartbeat server coupled to the database; a heartbeat agent operating on the device and coupled to the heartbeat server; a heartbeat packet sent from the heartbeat agent to the heartbeat server; and an update to the health record of the device responsive to the heartbeat packet.

Heartbeat heuristics

A method and system for displaying information related to a plurality of resources in a network environment. The system uses web technology to receive and store information related to back-end resources and to provide a framework by which client computer systems can manage the plurality of back-end resources in a uniform manner. In accordance with one method, a request is received to display object information from different network resources. In response, attribute and task information is retrieved from the appropriate different network resources and this information is displayed. A graphical user interface (GUI) displays information related to network resource objects. The GUI includes a console displaying a tool zone and a work zone. A module is displayed in the work zone having an object zone displaying a list of objects and a task zone displaying a list of tasks.

User interface for managing multiple network resources

In a management system, a management server authorizes users to access computing devices based on class space and instance space. The management server further determines whether users are authorized to use particular computing devices and/or applications provided by the particular computing devices. Alerts may also be provided to the users by the management server.

Authorization over a distributed and partitioned management system

Computing devices receive data type specific data from various local and external sources and managed entities. The data is received and process using modules and monitors, where the modules are sequenced to process the data and the monitors are used to provide condition states of the individual data sources and/or an overall condition state of a grouping of the data sources.

Extensible workflows

A method and system for task-based management of a plurality of resources in a network environment. The system uses web technology, preferably XML-technology, to receive and store information related to back-end resources and to provide a framework by which client computer systems can manage the plurality of back-end resources in a uniform manner. The method for managing a plurality of resources relates to receiving information from a resource related to a task for an object type and then receiving information from another resource related to a different task, but where the different task is associated with the same object type. The method then stores the information received from the second resource in association with the information received from the first resource. Next, the method receives a request to perform the management task in relation to the first managed object and determines which resource to call in response to the request; and then sends a task request to the determined resource to perform the management task.

Method and system for task based management of multiple network resources

A method and system for management of a plurality of resources in a network environment. The system uses web technology, preferably XML-technology, to receive and store information related to back-end resources and to provide a framework by which client computer systems can manage the plurality of back-end resources in a uniform manner. Using these communications, the management system uniformly associates information from the various resources via various multi-step, scenario-based functions, such as, for example, searches, monitoring, scripting, software deployment, etc. That is, the management system is able to provide easier, higher-level operation options to the administrator based on the associated information related to the various resources.

Method and system for management of multiple network resources

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