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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Liam M. Doherty, Subiaco, AU;
King-Yan Kwan, Perth, AU;
Mark A. Shewell, Perth, AU;
Peter G. Woodward, Perth, AU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for configuring and maintaining external monitoring of one or more instances of a virtual machine within a virtualized computing environment. The method includes a computer processor monitoring a hypervisor. The method further includes a computer processor identifying a first list, wherein the first list is comprised of one or more monitoring templates respectively associated with one or more virtual machine types, and maintaining a second list comprised plurality of provisioned instances of virtual machines, wherein the second list also includes a first information respectively associated with the plurality of provisioned instances of virtual machines. The method further includes a computer processor compiling a third list and transmitting the third list to the monitoring system. The method further includes a computer processor receiving the third list and in response, a computer processor executing one or more monitoring functions based, at least in part, on the third list.