An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning database resource within a grid database system. The federation apparatus includes an analysis module and a provision module. The analysis module analyzes a data query stream from an application to a database instance and determines if the data query stream exhibits a predetermined performance attribute. The provision module provisions a database resource in response to a determination that the data query stream exhibits the predetermined performance attribute. The provisioned database resource may be a database instance or a cache. The provisioning of the new database resource advantageously is substantially transparent to a client on the database system.

Apparatus, system, and method for database provisioning

In one aspect, a method of instructing operators in a best practices implementation of a service monitoring and control (SMC) facility performing a plurality of functions in a computer system comprising a plurality of services to be monitored is provided The method comprises an act of providing best practices instructions for the implementation of the SMC facility in a hierarchical manner so that the implementation of the SMC facility is described as comprising a plurality of top level activities to be performed during the operation of the SMC, with each of the plurality of top level activities being described as comprising at least one lower level sub-activity, the top level activities comprising, assessing performance of the SMC facility, in response to information learned during assessing the performance of the SMC facility, implementing at least one change in the SMC facility, monitoring the computer system with the changed SMC facility for an occurrence of at least one event, and automatically performing at least one control action in response to the occurrence of the at least one event In another aspect, a top-level activity of collaborating with one or more developers is described, resulting in a change to at least one change to software executed on the computer system In another aspect, at least a part of the effectiveness of an SMC facility is automatically assessed, and in response, one of the plurality of functions performed by the SMC facility is automatically changed

Methods for service monitoring and control

A hosted service provider for the Internet is operated so as to provide dynamic management of hosted services across disparate customer accounts and/or geographically distinct sites.

Method and system for providing dynamic hosted service management across disparate accounts/sites

A system for distributing incoming client requests across multiple servers in a networked client-server computer environment processes all requests as a set that occur within a given time interval and collects information on the attributes of the requests and the resource capability of the servers to dynamically allocate requests in a set to the appropriate servers upon completion of the time interval. Preferably, a request table collects at least two requests incoming within a predetermined time interval, a request examiner routine analyzes each collected request with respect to at least one attribute, a system status monitor collects resource capability information of each server in a resource table and an optimization and allocation process distributes collected requests in the request table across the multiple servers upon completion of said time interval based on an optimization of potential pairings of the requests in the request table with servers in the resource table.

System for balance distribution of requests across multiple servers using dynamic metrics

A method and system for securing web services on one or more server computers by one or more client computers, the computers connected to one or more networks through one or more network interfaces, each computer having one or more memories and one or more central processing units (CPUs), the system comprising one or more logical expressions that define constraints on one or more service releases; a gateway process receiving service request messages from one or more of the clients for i) identifying the service request message, ii) processing the service request message in accordance with one or more of the logical expressions associated with the requested service and iii) providing access to the requested service if the constraints are satisfied. The system includes an agent process associated with one or more the clients, for receiving service request messages from an associated client, the message destined for a requested service and applying to the received request message one or more of a subset of the logical expressions associated with the requested service for forwarding to the gateway process.

System and method securing web services

A self-governing, self-healing and self-optimizing policy oriented grid architecture. The architecture can include a hosting service configured for use in a computing grid. The hosting service can include a Web service; grid instrumentation coupled to the Web service; a Web service descriptive document; and, a service policy element disposed in the Web service descriptive document. The Web service descriptive document can include a WSDL type document. Moreover, at least one WSLA can be referenced in the WSDL type document. Notably, the service policy element can include at least one policy selected from the group consisting of a security assertion and a business rule. The security assertion can include a security assertion markup language (SAML) formatted authentication statement having a subject specifying a role identifier.

Policy enabled grid architecture

An autonomic grid. The autonomic grid can include a multiplicity of hosting services communicatively coupled to one another. Each hosting service can include an administrative service configured to determine whether to deploy requested Web services locally or remotely; a code base for storing implementations of the requested Web services; and, a deployment service configured to deploy on command the implementations stored in the code base. Notably, at least one of the hosting services further can include one or more Web services instances; one or more monitors configured to proxy requests to and responses from the Web services instances; and, one or more agents subscribed to the monitors to analyze the requests to and responses from the Web services instances, and to provision Web services in others of the hosting services based upon the analysis.

Autonomic web services hosting service

A self-healing and self-optimizing grid architecture can be provided in accordance with the present invention Specifically, the architecture can include a mechanism for detecting component failures, and even degraded component performance, within peer components in a hosting service Once a failure has been detected, the detecting peer to undertake remedial action to recreate and redeploy the component in the hosting system In particular, the detecting component can acquire the behavior of the failed component and the detecting component can instantiate an instance of the behavior in another server in the grid Thus, the mechanism described herein can be analogized to biotechnical DNA as every component in the hosting service can maintain an awareness of the state of the entire system and can recreate the entire system through knowledge provided by grid services DNA

Self healing grid architecture for decentralized component-based systems

A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for automatic discovery and maintenance of business processes in Web services and enterprise development environments. A set of agents are deployed to a set of enterprise containers to collect user function calls and report events to a central business workflow language generator. An event handler collects the events reported and an event grouper groups the events into a single workflow activity. An event correlation engine correlates activities to business workflow language constructions by using a temporal condition handler and a collection counting handler. The temporal condition handler maps activities that are in sequence, in parallel, and are repetitive. The collection counting handler counts the number of times an event is handled. Events and Rules for these events are written on the system based on a variety of business constructs that are particular to given business process definition language. A business workflow language generator then generates a business workflow and a workflow presents the business workflow in a user interface.

Automatic discovery and maintenance of business processes in web services and enterprise development environments

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand. The method comprises: providing a business process document for expressing the business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of components and a workflow; providing a plurality of installation documents, where each installation document describes an installation of a component of the business process; providing a mapping document for mapping each component of the business process to at least one of the installation documents describing the installation of that component; and provisioning the business process on-demand using the business process document, the installation documents, and the mapping document.

Nanchariah R. Chalasani

Papers

Policy enabled grid architecture

Autonomic web services hosting service

Self healing grid architecture for decentralized component-based systems

Automatic discovery and maintenance of business processes in web services and enterprise development environments

Autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand