Unified Server Manager for Health Alert Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing multiple servers is a time-intensive and complex endeavor, especially for small businesses that cannot afford in-house system administrators, requiring manual distribution of content and separate applications for configuration, load balancing, and monitoring, which increases errors and resource utilization outside normal business activities, reducing profitability.
Innovation Solution
A data gathering service aggregates health data from multiple systems, providing customizable and automated management of health monitoring tasks, allowing administrators to efficiently manage more networks with less effort and enhancing system utilization through customizable aggregated health data and automated control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual distribution of content and separate applications for configuration, load balancing, and monitoring are used, then system management can be performed, but administrative time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines configuration management, load balancing, and monitoring functions into a single integrated server manager application. This consolidation eliminates the need for administrators to manually distribute content across separate applications, reducing administrative time and complexity while maintaining comprehensive system control.
Solution Approach 2:
The server manager application performs multiple functions including content distribution, configuration management, load balancing, and monitoring through a single unified interface. This multi-functional approach allows administrators to manage diverse server tasks without switching between separate tools, directly addressing the time loss problem.
2Adaptability or versatility
If individual configuration of loosely coupled services is performed, then system flexibility is maintained, but errors and time expenditure increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated server manager provides real-time feedback on system status, configuration correctness, and service health. This feedback mechanism helps administrators detect and correct errors quickly while maintaining the flexibility to configure services individually, thus improving reliability without sacrificing adaptability.
3Reliability
If comprehensive health monitoring and status information are collected from multiple systems, then system reliability is improved, but the amount of information required becomes overwhelming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and presents only the critical health monitoring and status information from multiple systems through a unified interface. By filtering and prioritizing essential data while eliminating redundant or less important information, the system provides comprehensive monitoring capability without overwhelming administrators with excessive data.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention leverages a data gathering service to provide information regarding a system's health state via a computing entity, local and/or remote. This provides an optimized means to aggregate a single network's data and/or multiple networks' data, decreasing the amount of effort required by system administrators to manage health related alerts. In one instance of the present invention, a data gathering service aggregates health data from systems and provides access to this information via a communication means. In another instance of the present invention, aggregated, averaged data is utilized to provide manual and/or automatic control and/or management facilitation of health monitoring related tasks.