International Business Machines Corporation

Candle Distributed Solutions, Inc.

Paul Fredric Klein

Jean-Jacques Heler

Ashley Neil Clementi

Paul Michael Evans

Raymond P Ammerman, Iii

Paul Basil French

Raymond Perry Ammerman, Iii

Linh Ba Chung

Dannis Taje Yang

William Duchenay

Yohann Duchenay

Cathal O'Donovan

Jesse Nicholas Perez

Dennis Taje Yang

A first measurement point is received from a first monitoring agent. The first measurement point includes a first timestamp and a first transaction attribute. The first timestamp is stored. A second measurement point is received from a second monitoring agent. The second measurement point includes a second timestamp and a second transaction attribute. The second timestamp is stored.

Processing transaction timestamps

Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which a plurality of cloud images that execute in a plurality of nodes are maintained by a monitoring server, in a cloud computing environment. The monitoring server maintains information on an increase and a decrease in number of the plurality of cloud images in the cloud computing environment.

Scalable software monitoring infrastructure, using parallel task queuing, to operate in elastic cloud environments

A method for transmitting data from an on-premise component to an off-premise computer image includes: sending a message from the off-premise computer image to an off-premise server and recording an address of the off-premise computer image; sending a message from the off-premise server to the off-premise computer image with instructions for the off-premise computer image to connect to a specific unsecure port of the off-premise server; identifying a connection to the specific unsecure port of the off-premise server within a selected time interval; verifying the recorded address of the off-premise computer image; sending from the off-premise server a message to an on-premise connector to transmit the requested data using the specific unsecure port of the on-premise component if the off-premise computer image is verified and the connection is identified within the selected time interval; and transmitting the requested data using the specific unsecure port of the on-premise component.

Secure port forwarding to access data between public processing locations and on-premise components

Described is a multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) computing environment which provides at least one logical server where two or more sets of tenant data can be processed by the logical server to keep the data from commingling with each other. To prevent data commingling, every tenant transaction request is isolated, via the described system and method, from all other tenant transaction requests by dynamically creating and later destroying unique pluggable components that satisfy the transaction requests.

Transaction isolation during multi-tenant transaction requests

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for provisioning resources of a computing environment using predictive time analysis. In certain computing environments, such as a highly utilized cloud computing environment, a predictive provisioning analysis engine can determine how long a resource provisioning request can take to complete. By learning from a window of previously completed provisioning requests that is kept current, the predictive provisioning analysis engine can accurately predict when the resource provisioning request can complete.

Predicting resource provisioning times in a computing environment

A first subset of information about a transaction is received from a first application. The first application has a first monitoring technique. A second subset of information about the transaction is received from a second application. The second application has a second monitoring technique that is different from the first monitoring technique. The first subset of information is combined with the second subset of information to produce composite information about the transaction.

Combining monitoring techniques

A system for correlating communication packets across different communication networks includes a first monitoring agent in a first network for collecting local identifying information of a communication packet at a communication node. The first monitoring agent pairs the local identifying information with a public identifying information of the packet for a second network. The first monitoring agent further adds a timestamp to the collected information. A second monitoring agent in the second network receives a communication packet from the communication node and collects public identifying information of the packet. The second monitoring agent adds a time-stamp to the collected information. A third monitoring agent in the second network receives the information collected by the first and the second monitoring agents and correlates packets based on the received information. The third monitoring agent determines when specific packets captured from the first network and the second network are related to each other.

Correlating communication transactions across communication networks

Prior to a first primary machine image being cloned to a first secondary machine image and a second primary machine image being cloned to a second secondary machine image, a controller determines that the first primary machine image communicates with the second primary machine image. Cloning of the first primary machine image to the first secondary machine image and of the second primary machine image to the second secondary machine image is such that communication from the first secondary machine image to the second primary machine image is not directed to the second secondary machine image. Afterwards, a software agent running on the first secondary machine image changes a global machine image-wide hostname file at the first secondary machine image, so that the communication from the first secondary machine image to the second primary machine image is now directed to the second secondary machine image.

Communication redirection where primary machine images are cloned to secondary machine images

A first unique identifier is received from a first monitoring agent. The first unique identifier may be based on first natural data associated with a transaction. A second unique identifier is received from a second monitoring agent. The second unique identifier may be based on second natural data associated with the transaction. The first unique identifier may be correlated with the second unique identifier to monitor the transaction through a plurality of application environments.

Linking transactions

A first transaction attribute is received from a first monitoring agent. The first transaction attribute includes a plurality of identifiers and is associated with a transaction. A second transaction attribute is received from a second monitoring agent. The second transaction attribute is associated with the transaction. The transaction is monitored through a plurality of application environments by associating at least a portion of the first transaction attribute with at least a portion of the second transaction attribute.

Stitching transactions

A computer-based system and article of manufacture utilizing a single response time monitor, located on a non-origin node of a public or private network, for measuring the total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request having embedded HTML frames. The response time monitor builds a relationship tree for the original request and its embedded HTML frames. For each request from the set of requests resulting from the original request, including requests for the embedded HTML frames, the method uses the response time monitor to detect a start time and end time of each component of the request's roundtrip response time in order to calculate each component's duration. Later, the response time monitor calculates the total roundtrip response time by adding together the duration of all components of the original request and all its additional requests that have the same network address and port number.

Utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node for measuring the roundtrip response time of web pages with embedded HTML frames

Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment allows IT professionals to maintain processes running on the network. In one embodiment, the dynamic discovery is performed by identifying one or more computers in a computer network, identifying one or more processes on each identified computer that are communicating over the network, and displaying a graphical representation of the topology of the processes communicating over the network.

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Newbury Park, CA, United States of America

Paul Fredric Klein