Agent Profiler Proxy Interface for Software Agent Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software systems lack mechanisms to measure the resource overhead of software agents, track their actions, and identify potential conflicts between multiple agents, making it difficult to maintain optimal performance and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An agent profiler is introduced that attaches to an application, discovers software agents, and configures them to point to a proxy instrumentation interface, allowing for detailed monitoring and management of agent calls, resource usage, and conflict resolution without requiring changes to the agent code.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If software agents are used to provide instrumentation capabilities, then monitoring and measurement capabilities are improved, but resource overhead and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a profiler as an intermediary component that sits between the software agents and the monitored application. The profiler intercepts and analyzes agent calls without requiring the agents themselves to perform complex monitoring tasks, thereby reducing the resource overhead of individual agents while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities. The profiler aggregates and processes monitoring data centrally, allowing agents to remain lightweight.
2Measurement precision
If multiple software agents are deployed to monitor different aspects, then monitoring coverage is improved, but conflict detection and management become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple software agents into a unified profiling framework. Instead of having separate agents operating independently and potentially conflicting, the profiler consolidates monitoring tasks and provides a centralized mechanism for managing multiple agents. This unified approach allows for coordinated agent operation, reduced conflicts, and simplified management while maintaining comprehensive monitoring coverage across different system aspects.
3Adaptability or versatility
If software agents are added to enhance functionality, then system capabilities are improved, but identifying and resolving agent conflicts becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through the profiler that continuously monitor agent behavior and provide information about potential conflicts. The profiler analyzes agent calls and interactions in real-time, detecting conflicts between multiple agents and providing feedback to system administrators or automated conflict resolution mechanisms. This feedback loop enables timely identification and resolution of conflicts while maintaining enhanced system functionality provided by multiple agents.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a software agent profiler process attaches to an application and a primary instrumentation interface for the application, and discovers one or more software agents associated with the application. The software agent profiler process may then launch the one or more software agents within an encapsulated container environment of the software agent profiler process by configuring each of the one or more software agents, respectively, to point to a proxy instrumentation interface of the software agent profiler process instead of the primary instrumentation interface for the application. As such, the software agent profiler process may receive calls from the one or more software agents on the proxy instrumentation interface of the software agent profiler process, and can manage the calls from the one or more application agents prior to the calls being passed to the primary instrumentation interface for the application.