Abstract: Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. When a disaster event or events leading to a disaster event are detected, a trouble ticket may be generated. The trouble ticket may also generate an alert displayed to an administrator through a customized hierarchical graphical display. When the administrator is not logged in, messages may be generated to alert the administrator to the problem. The administrator may then log in remotely and respond to the alert.

Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to autonomous generation of software documentation, and more specifically to autonomous generation of documentation that describes user-defined rules implemented for a computer management system. In one embodiment, a system for generating documentation comprises a database storing user-defined rules that specify management actions to be triggered, for managing a computer system, responsive to receipt of a system message from the managed computer system. The system further comprises a documentation generation device configured to autonomously generate documentation describing the rules, wherein the documentation contains identification of at least the system message and the corresponding management actions triggered by the rules upon receipt of the system message.

Abstract: Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. After a disaster event occurs, the monitoring server may automatically execute a script or take other action to make a backup server or partition available. For example, the monitoring server may stop and deactivate a first partition that has failed, activate a second partition that is a mirror image of the first partition, and start the second partition.

Abstract: Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. After a disaster event occurs, the monitoring server may automatically execute a script or take other action to make a backup server or partition available. For example, the monitoring server may stop and deactivate a first partition that has failed, activate a second partition that is a mirror image of the first partition, and start the second partition.

Abstract: Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. When a disaster event or events leading to a disaster event are detected, a trouble ticket may be generated. The trouble ticket may also generate an alert displayed to an administrator through a customized hierarchical graphical display. When the administrator is not logged in, messages may be generated to alert the administrator to the problem. The administrator may then log in remotely and respond to the alert.

Abstract: Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. The monitoring server may monitor system of different types and/or configurations. For example, a first server monitored by the monitoring server may be different type of server than the second server. Each of the servers may be monitored through a remote communications session, such as a telnet session. In addition to monitoring the servers, the monitoring server may remotely manage the servers of different types.

Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to computer system management systems, and more specifically to enhanced alert handling within computer system management systems. In one embodiment, responsive to an Alert raise event occurring in a computer system management application, execution of an enhanced alert handling routine on a processor-based device is triggered. The enhanced alert handling routine determines whether description field filtering by a resource monitor was the source of the Alert. For instance, the enhanced alert handling routine may determine whether a source of the Alert was matching of a user-defined description in an event log for the managed computer system. When determined that such description field filtering was the source of the Alert, the enhanced alert handling routine clears the Alert and re-raises the Alert with a unique alert-ID. Because the Alert is re-raised with a unique alert-ID, it is not discarded by the management application as a duplicate.

Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to autonomous generation of software documentation, and more specifically to autonomous generation of documentation that describes user-defined rules implemented for a computer management system. In one embodiment, a system for generating documentation comprises a database storing user-defined rules that specify management actions to be triggered, for managing a computer system, responsive to receipt of a system message from the managed computer system. The system further comprises a documentation generation device configured to autonomously generate documentation describing the rules, wherein the documentation contains identification of at least the system message and the corresponding management actions triggered by the rules upon receipt of the system message.

Abstract: Systems and methods operable to output a packet of data a management application is unable to directly process to perform a desired operation, communicate the output packet of data to a language service application adapted to perform the desired operation, perform the desired operation using data of the packet of data to provide operation results, and, input the operation results to the management application for processing by the management application using native processing capabilities of the management application are disclosed.

Abstract: A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly recording computer program logic is disclosed. The computer program product includes code to receive user input requesting access to a first database of a plurality of databases and code to load a file in a process written in unmanaged code, where the file creates a Component Object Model (COM) callable wrapper. The computer program product further includes code to make a method call to the COM callable wrapper requesting access to the first database and code to make an Application Programming Interface (API) call from the COM callable wrapper to an object oriented interface of the first database in response to the method call.

Abstract: A method for managing alerts in a distributed computer system includes monitoring one or more portions of the computer system for exceptions and, upon discerning a first exception, generating an audible alert at a first workstation of the computer system. A distributed computer system includes at least one workstation and at least one component executing a system event detection program. The computer system further includes a first module that monitors the computer system for a system event requiring administrative attention and a second module that produces an audible alert of the system event on a first workstation. A computer program product has a computer readable medium that has computer program logic recorded thereon for providing audible alerts for conditions of a distributed computer system.