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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lital Hassine, Herzliya, IL;
Scott Feldstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Moran Shimron, Mevaseret Zion, IL;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines. A disclosed example involves: (a) automatically scanning the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; (b) automatically determining whether the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; (c) when the service corresponds to the service monitoring rule, automatically determining whether a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; (d) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is not installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically installing the monitoring agent on the virtual machines on which the service is installed; and (e) when the monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, automatically configuring the monitoring agent to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the virtual machines on which the service is installed, wherein (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are repeatedly performed without human intervention.