Patent ID: 9747142
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for centralizing events by a main collector for a multilevel hierarchical computer management system comprising at least a first level below the main collector and a second level below the first level, said system comprising a plurality of sources generating events and a plurality of event collectors, said method comprising: collecting, by the collectors, at each level, the events from each source, transmitted, at least for one of the sources, to a plurality of the collectors, and said method comprising, for each upper collector: selecting by said upper level collector of one of the lower level collectors among a plurality of available lower level collectors linked to said upper collector, said selecting being made according to operational parameters and/or a link quality of service of said lower level collector, wherein the operational parameters comprise material capacities and/or consumption parameters and/or a number of events; receiving by said upper level collector the events from said selected lower level collector; periodically verifying if the selected lower level collector is available and if not repeating the selecting; comparing by said upper level collector the received events with events of the unselected available lower level collectors by sending, by each of these unselected available lower level collectors, an identifier of each event comprised by this unselected lower collector, designating, based on the comparing, missing events by sending to the relevant unselected lower collector a request for each missing event, and receiving each missing event from the relevant unselected lower collector.