CN110377478B

CN110377478B - Agent-based host asset management system

Info

Publication number: CN110377478B
Application number: CN201810357419.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡继堂; 胡俊; 程度; 张福
Original assignee: Beijing Shengxin Network Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Shengxin Network Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-04-20
Filing date: 2018-04-20
Publication date: 2021-05-18
Anticipated expiration: 2038-04-20
Also published as: CN110377478A

Abstract

The invention discloses an Agent-based host asset management system, and relates to a host asset management system. The invention relates to a system for collecting, counting and managing various asset information on a host in a network based on an Agent background program running on the host and combined with a back-end cloud service. The system consists of host information acquisition, data increment transmission, back-end data collection and data providing API, and can quickly, conveniently and efficiently manage various assets on a server cluster with the scale exceeding ten thousand. The invention obtains the data change of various assets of the host computer in real time in a passive mode, and the data change response is fast. Only the changed asset data can be transmitted, and the transmission of part of unchanged data can be avoided, so that the network bandwidth and the resource consumption of the host computer are saved. Besides the first installation of the Agent, the whole process does not need manual intervention, and the automation degree is high when the host assets change and then automatically react to a management interface.

Description

Agent-based host asset management system

Technical Field

The invention relates to a host asset management system, in particular to an Agent-based host asset management system.

Background

System administrators often need to efficiently inventory and manage host asset conditions within a network environment. However, when hosts within a network exceed a certain size, it becomes very difficult and time consuming to accurately master the basic situation of these hosts, and information can often only be collected and collated manually or semi-automatically by executing commands remotely or with some tools. To further improve the management efficiency of large-scale cluster hosts, it is necessary to adopt a mode with less manual intervention and higher automation degree to count and manage assets.

The host in the network environment has data information of many asset classes, such as host hardware, operating system, running process, installation package, network port, etc., and the information of these asset classes has the characteristics of large data volume, fast data change, complex data structure, etc.

Agents are background programs running on each network host, reside in the background for a long time, and only use extremely low system resources. The Agent can collect various asset information on the host computer at regular time. After the collection is completed, the Agent sends the information to the back-end cloud service in an incremental mode as basic data of the host, so that the consumption of network bandwidth resources is reduced.

And the back-end cloud service is responsible for sorting, processing and outputting the asset data. After the back end receives the basic data of the host, the data are collected and sorted at different angles, and the data are provided to a system administrator at different viewing angles and statistical apertures, so that the system administrator can quickly and accurately master the asset information of the host in the network.

Various configuration management databases CMDB are available on the market in close proximity to the present invention. The method aims to manage and track the hardware assets of the enterprise, but has different emphasis points, CMDB mainly focuses on all IT asset management in the enterprise, and the method mainly focuses on efficient data acquisition of a production environment.

Existing technologies either provide only asset data management capabilities, and the collection of data requires manual entry, or collection by way of remote command execution, such as SSH. These approaches are active triggered for host asset acquisition and do not respond to changes in data in real-time enough, such as for processes, network connections, and the like, that data may be generated or lost instantaneously. Moreover, each acquisition needs to collect the whole amount of the concerned content, and relatively large hardware resources and network bandwidth resources need to be consumed.

In conclusion, the invention designs an Agent-based host asset management system.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention aims to provide an Agent-based host asset management system, which is a system for collecting, counting and managing various asset information on a host in a network based on an Agent background program running on the host and combined with a back-end cloud service. The system consists of host information acquisition, data increment transmission, back-end data collection and data providing API, and can quickly, conveniently and efficiently manage various assets on a server cluster with the scale exceeding ten thousand. The invention can be suitable for Linux systems and Windows systems of various versions.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: an Agent-based host asset management system comprises an Agent end and a background server end, wherein the Agent end is the center of the whole system, and the Agent end is used as a background service and resident in a managed host and is responsible for collecting and reporting asset data on the host; and after receiving the data from the Agent, the background server performs multi-dimensional processing and sorting on the data, and provides the data for a system administrator.

The Agent end collects data in two modes, namely, timing collection and real-time reporting. Data which is suitable for being not highly commented on changes, such as hardware information of a host, operating system information, software package installation and service information, are collected regularly. And the real-time reporting is suitable for scenes with high change frequency or needing to learn changes in time, such as process information, network connection information, account change information and the like.

In the scene of timing acquisition, the Agent carries out comprehensive scanning on the asset information of the host in a defined acquisition interval, and the scanning mainly uses a system interface to directly read the existing information, so the speed is high and the resource consumption is low. After the scanning is finished, the Agent stores the data scanned this time in a local cache in a 'snapshot' form, and then notifies the background service to receive the data. The 'snapshot' is stored after each acquisition, and the version number is marked to be used as the basis of incremental transmission. If the background service receives the asset information of the host for the first time, the Agent is required to upload all data of the latest snapshot. If the background service has received the host asset information of a certain version before, the Agent is required to perform difference calculation on the latest scanned version and the existing version of the service end, and then only the difference part is uploaded, so that the purposes of saving bandwidth and improving efficiency are achieved.

In a real-time reporting scene, the Agent continuously monitors data information concerned on the host, such as process, network connection, port opening and the like. Once the concerned asset data changes, the changed data is reported to the server, and then the server combines and processes the real-time reported data and the asset class data reported regularly, and presents the combined data to the system user.

According to the invention, the data host asset data is collected through the Agent, and the Agent locally saves the asset data snapshot; the asset data is incrementally transmitted based on the local asset snapshot.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: 1. the invention obtains the data change of various assets of the host computer in real time in a passive mode based on the Agent background program resident in the host computer, and the data change response is fast.

2. The invention can only transmit the changed asset data, and can avoid transmitting part of unchanged data, thereby saving network bandwidth and the resource consumption of the host.

3. Besides the first installation of the Agent, the whole process does not need manual intervention, and the automation degree is high when the host assets change and then automatically react to a management interface.

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The invention is described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the detailed description;

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the system of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical means, the creation characteristics, the achievement purposes and the effects of the invention easy to understand, the invention is further described with the specific embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, the following technical solutions are adopted in the present embodiment: the invention mainly comprises an Agent end and a background server end. The Agent end is the center of the whole invention, is used as a background service and is resident in a managed host and is responsible for collecting and reporting asset data on the host. And after receiving the data from the Agent, the background server performs multi-dimensional processing and sorting on the data, and provides the data for a system administrator.

The Agent collects data in two ways, namely, regularly collecting and reporting in real time. Data which is suitable for being not highly commented on changes, such as hardware information of a host, operating system information, software package installation and service information, are collected regularly. And the real-time reporting is suitable for scenes with high change frequency or needing to learn changes in time, such as process information, network connection information, account change information and the like.

In the scene of timing acquisition, the Agent carries out comprehensive scanning on the asset information of the host in a defined acquisition interval, and the scanning mainly uses a system interface to directly read the existing information, so the speed is high and the resource consumption is low. After the scanning is finished, the Agent stores the data scanned this time in a local cache in a 'snapshot' form, and then notifies the background service to receive the data. The "snapshot" is stored one copy after each acquisition and is marked with a version number as a basis for incremental transmission (described later). If the background service receives the asset information of the host for the first time, the Agent is required to upload all data of the latest snapshot. If the background service has received the host asset information of a certain version before, the Agent is required to perform difference calculation on the latest scanned version and the existing version of the service end, and then only the difference part is uploaded, so that the purposes of saving bandwidth and improving efficiency are achieved

The management system of the present embodiment has a workflow: when a system user needs to know various asset information on a managed host, the user can log in a foreground management interface of the system and know detailed information of different assets through different classification entries. In these interface views of asset categories, a system user can observe asset information from the host dimension or asset dimension, such as how many assets are on each host, or how many hosts a certain type of asset exists, and also can query and filter the presented asset information according to the required conditions. According to the automatic asset update flow described above, this information is presented in real-time as the most current state, and does not require manual intervention by the user.

The invention has been tested and simulated in the environment of more than 1 ten thousand hosts, and the running state is good. At the using stage, a plurality of clients can obtain positive feedback, the clients can be helped to efficiently manage the host assets of the production environment, and the operation and maintenance work efficiency of the clients is greatly improved.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles and broad features of the present invention and advantages thereof. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims

1. An Agent-based host asset management system is characterized by comprising an Agent end and a background server end, wherein the Agent end is the center of the whole system, and the Agent end is used as a background service to reside in a managed host and is responsible for collecting and reporting asset data on the host; after receiving the data from the Agent, the background server performs multi-dimensional processing and sorting on the data, and provides the data to a system administrator; the Agent end collects data in two modes, namely, the Agent end collects data regularly and reports the data in real time; data which are suitable for being changed and have low comments are collected regularly, and scenes which are suitable for being changed and have high frequency or need to be informed of changes in time are reported in real time; in the scene of timing acquisition, the Agent carries out comprehensive scanning on the asset information of the host in a defined acquisition interval, and the scanning mainly uses a system interface to directly read the existing information, so the speed is high and the resource consumption is low; after the scanning is finished, the Agent stores the scanned data in a local cache in a 'snapshot' form and then informs a background service to receive the data; the 'snapshot' is stored after each acquisition, and the version number is marked to be used as the basis of incremental transmission; if the background service receives the asset information of the host for the first time, the Agent is required to upload all data of the latest snapshot; if the background service has received the host asset information of a certain version before, the Agent is required to perform difference calculation on the latest scanned version and the existing version of the service end, and then only the difference part is uploaded, so that the purposes of saving bandwidth and improving efficiency are achieved.

2. The Agent-based host asset management system according to claim 1, wherein in the real-time reporting scenario, an Agent continuously monitors data information of interest on a host; once the concerned asset data changes, the changed data is reported to the server, and then the server combines and processes the real-time reported data and the asset class data reported regularly, and presents the combined data to the system user.