Vmware, Inc.

Grigor Harbaliev

Akash Kodenkiri

Ivaylo Radoslavov Radev

Ammar Rizvi

Kiril Karaatanassov

Dimitar Dimitrov

Mariana Valeva

Anmol Parikh

Chandrika Mutalik

Vladimir Ivanov

Radoslav Nikolov

Distributed tracing is applied during an upgrade from a first management appliance to a second management appliance. The distributed tracing method includes generating a parent span that encapsulates states of the overall workflow, including a span context that contains a trace identifier and a span identifier, and generating a plurality of child spans. Each child span encapsulates states that represent a piece of the workflow and contains a reference to the parent span context. The states of the child spans include an error tag that indicates whether the piece of the workflow associated with the child span executed with an error. Because child spans may be generated for a piece of the workflow that is executed by a service running in the first or second management appliance, the span context for the parent span is persisted by the first management appliance and replicated for use by the second management appliance.

Real-time cross appliance operational intelligence during management appliance upgrade

A system is described allowing a user to log into an API proxy by supplying login credentials and to have the API proxy log into the APIs of various web-based applications on behalf of the user by using the user's login credentials, without the user needing to separately log into each application. Calls made by the user to an application and application replies are routed through the API proxy. Further, the API proxy manages session expirations, e.g., by sending dummy calls to applications that exhibit idle expiration.

Providing a single session experience across multiple applications

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Sofia, Bulgaria

Grigor Harbaliev