Agentless Cloud Portal for On-Premises HCI Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing large numbers of complex, on-premises resources, such as hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) clusters, distributed across multiple physical sites is challenging due to the lack of active management capabilities in existing monitoring systems.
Innovation Solution
Establishing an agentless connection via an in-cloud web portal to on-premises information handling resources, allowing for configuration management operations to be performed remotely through API calls, thereby enabling active management of resources without the need for middle-layer management agents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If monitoring applications are deployed to monitor multiple on-premises systems, then monitoring capability is improved, but active management capability (configuration changes) remains unavailable
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring application is enhanced to perform both monitoring and active management functions. The same application interface that displays system status also enables configuration changes through integrated workflows, allowing IT administrators to perform both observation and modification tasks within a single unified system rather than requiring separate tools.
2Ease of operation
If management agents are deployed at each on-premises location, then active management capability is improved, but system complexity and deployment cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The management functionality is extracted from distributed agent software and consolidated into a single centralized cloud-based application. This eliminates the need to deploy and maintain management agents at each physical location, removing the complexity of multi-layered agent installations while preserving full active management capability through web-based interfaces accessible from any location.
3Ease of operation
If management agents are deployed at each on-premises location, then active management capability is improved, but resource consumption and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized cloud-based management application leverages the existing monitoring data and system capabilities already present at each location, eliminating the need for additional dedicated management agent resources. The system uses available local resources for monitoring while performing management operations remotely through standardized protocols, reducing overall resource consumption by avoiding duplicate software installations and maintenance overhead.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed methods and systems for managing on-premises information handling resources establish, by an in-cloud web portal, an agentless connection to an on-premises information handling resource and perform, via the agentless connection, a configuration management operation to modify a configuration of the on-premises handling resource. Establishing the agentless connection and performing the configuration management operation may include one or more appropriate API calls. Disclosed teachings enable a web-accessible, public cloud portal to perform active configuration management of on-premises resources scattered across any number of distinct and potentially isolated customer sites without deploying and maintaining management agent software within the customer's private cloud. The on-premises resources may include a multi-node cluster provided by a node or nodes of one or more HCI appliances.