Distributed Queuing for Remote Network Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote network management platforms face complexity and performance bottlenecks due to inefficient communication configurations, leading to duplicated efforts and suboptimal performance in managing and integrating custom software applications across enterprises.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a distributed queuing system with multiple queues dedicated to specific applications or traffic priorities, along with a proxy queue for result analysis, optimization, and processing, facilitates flexible configuration and improved performance by enabling efficient communication between remote network management platforms and managed networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single queue is used for communication between remote network management platform and managed network, then the system structure is simple, but performance bottlenecks and duplicated efforts occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the single communication queue into multiple specialized queues, each dedicated to specific applications or traffic priorities. This segmentation allows different types of communications to be handled independently, eliminating bottlenecks and duplicated efforts while maintaining manageable system complexity through organized structure.
2Productivity
If multiple queues are implemented for different applications and priorities, then communication efficiency improves, but configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes queue configurations in advance, dedicating specific queues to particular applications and priority levels before communication occurs. This preliminary organization enables efficient communication routing without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thereby improving communication efficiency while keeping configuration manageable.
3Productivity
If results are directly placed in queues for delivery, then the process is simple, but duplicated results and large result entries cause performance issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a proxy queue as an intermediary between the application and the main communication queue. This proxy queue performs preliminary processing of results, including removal of duplicates and splitting of large result entries, before placing processed results in the main queue. This intermediary layer improves result delivery efficiency by preventing performance issues while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
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AI summary
An embodiment may involve a computational instance disposed within a remote network management platform. The computational instance may contain queues and facilitate the execution of applications. Communication between the computational instance and a managed network may involve: (i) selecting, by a particular application, a particular output queue; (ii) writing, by the particular application, a unit of work generated by the particular application to the particular output queue; (iii) providing, by particular output queue, the unit of work to a particular proxy server application; (iv) retrieving, by a particular input queue, a result from the particular proxy server application, where the result represents an outcome of the particular proxy server application carrying out the unit of work, and where the particular input queue is associated with the particular output queue; and (v) retrieving, by the particular application, the result from the particular input queue.