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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sreeram Iyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aditya Somasundara, Milpitas, CA (US);
Raju Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Praveen Yalagandula, San Francisco, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method includes selecting, among service engines (SEs) executing on a respective plurality of hosts, a set of one or more SEs to perform health monitoring of an application, where a plurality of instances of the application are executing on at least some of the hosts, and the selected SE(s) includes a subset of the SEs. The method includes collecting health monitor data from the selected SE(s), determining a health condition based at least in part on the collected data, and outputting the health condition. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first SE of a first host among a plurality of hosts, configuration information pertaining to a subset of application instances executing on corresponding ones of the plurality of hosts, obtaining health data pertaining to the subset of application instances, and outputting the health data to be shared by the plurality of hosts.