Patent ID: 7941457
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring a status of a plurality of data suppliers in a system, comprising: receiving first data at a standard instrumentation interface, the first data being transmitted by an internal data supplier that is compliant with the standard instrumentation interface, and comprising one or more monitored parameters associated with the internal data supplier; receiving second data at an extensible mark-up language (XML) processor, the second data being transmitted by an external data supplier that is incompliant with the standard instrumentation interface, and comprising an XML document that includes data corresponding to one or more monitored parameters associated with the external data supplier, the XML document having a document type definition (DTD) associated with a tree-structured monitoring architecture, the DTD having two distinct formats, a long form for specifying a monitoring tree for the data suppliers, and a short form for providing current values of selected already established monitoring tree elements; processing the second data at the XML processor to translate the second data into calls to a function group to provide modified second data; receiving the modified second data at the standard instrumentation interface, the modified second data being transmitted by the XML processor; determining that at least one of the first data and the modified second data violates a defined alert threshold using a central monitoring architecture; generating one or more alerts in response to the determining, the one or more alerts indicating a warning with respect to one of the internal data supplier and the external data supplier; and displaying the one or more alerts in a respective, corresponding monitoring tree element (MTE) of the monitoring tree on a display, the monitoring tree reflecting a current configuration of systems that are being monitored.