CN111800281A - Network system, management and control method, device and storage medium - Google Patents

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CN111800281A
CN111800281A CN201910277460.1A CN201910277460A CN111800281A CN 111800281 A CN111800281 A CN 111800281A CN 201910277460 A CN201910277460 A CN 201910277460A CN 111800281 A CN111800281 A CN 111800281A
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Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a network system, a management and control method, equipment and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the application, in combination with the concept of edge computing, the capability of cloud computing is considered to be placed on the edge side closer to the terminal side, so that a network system including edge cloud nodes is provided, in the network system, in combination with a central management and control device and an edge management and control device, the edge cloud nodes can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, a condition is provided for placing cloud computing in the edge cloud nodes closer to the terminal for processing, further, cloud computing services can be provided for users by means of resources in the edge cloud nodes, service response time delay is favorably reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.

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Network system, management and control method, device and storage medium
Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of internet technologies, and in particular, to a network system, a management and control method, a device, and a storage medium.
Background
At present, the concept of cloud computing is proposed based on centralized resource management and control, and even if a plurality of data center interconnection and intercommunication forms are adopted, all software and hardware resources are still regarded as uniform resources to be managed, scheduled and sold. With the arrival of the age of 5G and the internet of things and the gradual increase of cloud computing applications, the requirements of a terminal side on the performances of time delay, bandwidth and the like of cloud resources are higher and higher, and a centralized cloud network cannot meet the increasingly higher cloud resource requirements of the terminal side.
Disclosure of Invention
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a network system, a management and control method, a device, and a storage medium, so as to reduce response delay of a service and reduce bandwidth cost.
An embodiment of the present application provides a network system, including: the system comprises a central control device, an edge control device and at least one edge cloud node; the central control device is configured to receive monitoring data, which is reported by the edge control device and is for the at least one edge cloud node, and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data; the edge management and control equipment is used for monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the center management and control equipment; and under the condition that the central management and control equipment does not or cannot manage and control the at least one edge cloud node, autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node.
The embodiment of the present application further provides a management and control method, including: determining that a central management and control device in a network system does not or cannot manage and control at least one edge cloud node in the network system; and autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node.
The embodiment of the present application further provides a management and control method, including: monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system; and reporting the monitoring data to a central control device in the network system so that the central control device can control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
An embodiment of the present application further provides an edge management and control device, including: a memory and a processor; the memory for storing a computer program; the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to carry out the steps in the embodiments of the method of the present application.
Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps in the embodiments of the method of the present application.
In the embodiment of the application, in combination with the concept of edge computing, the capability of cloud computing is considered to be placed on the edge side closer to the terminal side, so that a network system including edge cloud nodes is provided, in the network system, in combination with a central management and control device and an edge management and control device, the edge cloud nodes can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, a condition is provided for placing cloud computing in the edge cloud nodes closer to the terminal for processing, further, cloud computing services can be provided for users by means of resources in the edge cloud nodes, response delay is favorably reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.
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fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 1b is a schematic structural diagram of a center management and control device and an edge management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 1c is a schematic structural diagram of another network system provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2a is a schematic flow chart of a control method provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2b is a schematic flow chart of another control method provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a central management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an edge management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions of the present application will be described in detail and completely with reference to the following specific embodiments of the present application and the accompanying drawings. It should be apparent that the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
In some embodiments of the present application, in combination with a concept of edge computing, a capability of cloud computing is considered to be placed on an edge side closer to a terminal side, so that a network system including at least one edge cloud node is provided, in the network system, in combination with a central management and control device and an edge management and control device, the edge cloud node can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, and a management and control problem of the edge cloud node is solved, which provides a condition for placing cloud computing in the edge cloud node closer to the terminal for processing, and further provides cloud computing service for a user by means of resources in the edge cloud node, thereby facilitating reduction of response delay and reduction of bandwidth cost.
The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1a, the network system 100 includes: a central management device 101, an edge management device 103, and at least one edge cloud node 102.
The network system 100 of the present embodiment is a cloud computing platform constructed on an edge infrastructure based on cloud computing technology and edge computing capability, and is a cloud platform having computing, networking, storage, security, and other capabilities at an edge location.
The network system 100 of the present embodiment may be regarded as an edge cloud network system corresponding to a central cloud or a conventional cloud computing platform. The edge cloud is a relative concept, the edge cloud refers to a cloud computing platform relatively close to the terminal, or is different from a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform, the central cloud or the traditional cloud computing platform may include a data center with a large resource scale and a centralized position, a network range covered by the edge cloud nodes is wider, and therefore the edge cloud computing platform has the characteristic of being closer to the terminal, the resource scale of a single edge cloud node is smaller, but the number of the edge cloud nodes is large, and a plurality of edge cloud nodes form a component of the edge cloud in the embodiment. The terminal in this embodiment refers to a demand end of the cloud computing service, and may be, for example, a terminal or a user end in the internet, or a terminal or a user end in the internet of things. An edge cloud network is a network built based on infrastructure between a central cloud or traditional cloud computing system and terminals. Therein, the network system 100 includes at least one edge cloud node 102, each edge cloud node 102 including a series of edge infrastructures including, but not limited to: a distributed Data Center (DC), a wireless room or cluster, an edge device such as a communication network of an operator, a core network device, a base station, an edge gateway, a home gateway, a computing device and/or a storage device, a corresponding network environment, and so on. It is noted that the location, capabilities, and infrastructure involved of different edge cloud nodes 102 may or may not be the same.
In the network architecture, tasks such as network forwarding, storage, computing and/or intelligent data analysis can be placed in each edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 for processing, and as each edge cloud node 102 is closer to a terminal, response delay can be reduced, pressure of a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform can be reduced, and bandwidth cost can be reduced.
How to reasonably schedule the resources of the plurality of edge cloud nodes and how to manage and control the plurality of edge cloud nodes to perform cloud computing services with correct and stable logic is an important challenge. In the network system 100 of this embodiment, a central management and control device 101 is deployed, and the central management and control device 101 may use the edge cloud node 102 as a management and control object to manage and control at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 in aspects of resource scheduling, mirror image management, instance management, operation and maintenance, network, security, and the like, so as to place cloud computing services into each edge cloud node 102 for processing. In terms of deployment implementation, the central management and control device 101 may be deployed in one or more cloud computing data centers, or may be deployed in one or more conventional data centers, and the central management and control device 101 may also form an edge cloud network together with at least one edge cloud node managed by the central management and control device, which is not limited in this embodiment.
For an edge cloud node 102, various resources, such as computing resources like CPUs and GPUs, storage resources like memories and hard disks, network resources like bandwidths, and the like, may be provided externally. In addition, the edge cloud node 102 may also create a corresponding instance according to the mirror image, and provide various services to the outside through the instance. The image is a basic file required by an instance created in the edge cloud node, and may be, for example, an image file such as an operating system, an application, or an operation configuration required for providing a cloud computing service for a user, where the image file may be a file that meets computing deployment requirements of the edge cloud node and is made of a specific series of files according to a certain format. In addition, the image may be in various forms, such as a Virtual Machine (VM) image file, a container (Docker) image file, various types of application package files, and the like, and the image form may be related to a virtualization technology that needs to be used by the cloud computing service, which is not limited in this embodiment. Corresponding to mirroring, the implementation of an instance may be a virtual machine, a container, an application, or the like.
In this embodiment, the central management and control device 101 may perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 separately according to resource requirements, may also perform management and distribution of a mirror image for at least one edge cloud node 102 separately according to mirror image requirements, and of course, may also perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 according to service requirements, and provide a mirror image for at least one edge cloud node 102. The service requirements comprise resource requirements and mirror requirements. For example, the central administration device 101 may provide a requirement submission entry externally, where the requirement submission entry may be a web page, an application page, or a command window. The demand submission inlet is used for submitting the demand description information of the demand to the central control device 101.
For the resource demander, resource requirement description information may be submitted to the central management and control device 101 through the requirement submission entry, where the resource requirement description information includes: selecting parameters and resource selection parameters by the edge cloud nodes; the edge cloud node selection parameters comprise scheduling domains and/or performance requirements on the edge cloud nodes and the like, and the resource selection parameters comprise resource types, resource quantity, performance requirements on resource equipment and the like. The central management and control device 101 may perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node according to the resource demand description information. Optionally, a resource scheduling method includes: the central control device 101 determines a scheduled target edge cloud node and scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node 102 of the network system 100 according to the resource demand description information; and controlling corresponding resource equipment in the target edge cloud node to perform resource allocation or reservation according to the resource information.
For the mirror image demander, mirror image requirement description information can be submitted to the central management and control device 101 through the requirement submission inlet, and the mirror image requirement description information can point to a mirror image which needs to be used, and can be the mirror image itself, identification type information such as the name and ID of the mirror image, and the like, and can also be some information describing the functions of the cloud computing service, and the information can reflect the required mirror image. The central management and control device 101 may determine a target mirror image that needs to be provided to the first edge cloud node according to the mirror image requirement description information; and providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node, so that the first edge cloud node creates a corresponding instance according to the mirror image to provide corresponding cloud computing service. The first edge cloud node may be any edge cloud node in the network system 100. For ease of description and differentiation, the image that needs to be provided to the first edge cloud node is referred to as the target image.
For the service demander, service requirement description information may be submitted to the central management and control device 101 through the requirement submission entry, where the service requirement description information includes resource requirement description information and mirror image requirement description information. For the resource requirement description information and the mirror requirement description information, reference may be made to the foregoing description, which is not described herein again. It should be noted that the resource requirement description information and the mirror requirement description information in the service requirement description information may be submitted together or separately. The central management and control device 101 may perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 according to the service requirement description information; mirroring is provided for the scheduled resources in the at least one edge cloud node 102 to provide cloud computing services using the scheduled resources in the at least one edge cloud node.
For a detailed description of the resource scheduling process and the image management and distribution process, reference may be made to the following embodiments, which will not be described in detail herein.
It should be noted that, in the network system 100, the central management apparatus 101 may directly manage and schedule the at least one edge cloud node 102, but is not limited thereto. As shown in fig. 1a, in the network system 100, in addition to the central management apparatus 101 and the at least one edge cloud node 102, an edge management apparatus 103 is further included. The number of the edge control devices 103 may be one or multiple. In addition, the edge policing device 103 may be deployed in one or more edge cloud nodes 102. In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 1a, an edge management and control device 103 is respectively deployed in each edge cloud node 102. Further, each edge cloud node includes one or more resource devices, and optionally, the edge management and control device 103 may be centrally deployed on one resource device, or may be dispersedly deployed on multiple resource devices. In addition, each edge cloud node may include one or more proprietary devices in addition to the resource device, and optionally, the edge management and control device 103 may also be centrally deployed on one proprietary device or dispersedly deployed on multiple proprietary devices. The proprietary device refers to a physical device used to deploy the edge controlling device 103, and is different from the resource device. Furthermore, the edge management device 103 may also be deployed together with the central management device 101, and is not limited herein. The central control apparatus 101 may be deployed in one or more cloud computing data centers or traditional data centers, or may be deployed in an edge cloud network together with at least one edge cloud node.
In this embodiment, the edge management and control device 103 may assist and cooperate with the central management and control device 101 to manage and schedule at least one edge cloud node 102. With the assistance of the edge management and control device 103, the central management and control device 101 can more conveniently and efficiently manage and control and schedule at least one edge cloud node 102, so as to achieve the purpose of fully utilizing edge resources.
It should be noted that the central control device 101 in this embodiment may be a logic device having the capabilities of resource scheduling, mirror image management, operation and maintenance management, and the like, and these functions may be implemented by being deployed on one physical machine or virtual machine, or may be dispersedly deployed on multiple physical machines or virtual machines. Of course, the central management and control device in this embodiment may also be one or more physical devices with the capabilities of resource scheduling, mirror image management, and the like. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the implementation structure of the center management and control device 101, and any device structure having the above-described capability is suitable for the embodiment of the present application.
Similar to the central control device 101, the edge control device 103 may also be a logic device, and may have a capability of being implemented on one physical machine (for example, a resource device or a dedicated device in an edge cloud node) or a virtual machine, or may be dispersedly deployed on multiple physical machines (for example, a resource device or a dedicated device in an edge cloud node) or virtual machines. Of course, the edge management and control device may also be one or more physical devices with corresponding capabilities. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the implementation structure of the edge management and control device 103, and any device structure with corresponding capability is suitable for the embodiment of the present application.
In the embodiment of the present application, a secure and encrypted communication channel is established between the central management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 103, and interaction is performed based on the communication channel. The communication channel includes a control interface and a data interface, and the central management and control device 101 performs interaction of a control plane and a data plane with the edge management and control device 103 based on the control interface and the data interface, thereby completing scheduling and management and control of the edge cloud node 102. The data interface is used for data transmission between the central management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 103. The control interface has, but is not limited to, the following functions:
1. resource scheduling capability: the central control device 101 may perform resource scheduling on edge cloud nodes from multiple dimensions through a control interface with resource scheduling capability (which may be referred to as a resource scheduling interface for short), where an edge cloud node is an object of the central control device 101 for performing resource scheduling;
2. mirror management and distribution capability: the central management and control device 101 may provide the mirror image to the edge cloud node through a control interface with mirror image management and distribution capabilities (referred to as a mirror image management interface for short), so that the edge cloud node may create a corresponding instance according to the received mirror image, and provide cloud computing services through the instance;
3. operation and maintenance management capacity: the central management and control device 101 performs operation and maintenance management on the edge cloud node through a control interface with operation and maintenance management capability (referred to as an operation and maintenance management interface for short), where the operation and maintenance management includes but is not limited to: and managing and controlling applications, virtualization software and the like in the edge cloud nodes, and monitoring the state, the resource usage amount, infrastructure and the like of the instances.
Corresponding to the capabilities of the control interface, the central management and control device 101 of the present embodiment has, but is not limited to, the following functions:
1. resource scheduling can be performed on the edge cloud node according to service requirement description information, such as the specification of a service, an area where the service needs to be deployed, the distribution of an operator network, network delay, load conditions, bandwidth cost, the type of required resources and/or the performance requirements of resource equipment;
2. the mirror image required by the cloud computing service can be acquired, and the mirror image is provided for corresponding resource equipment in the edge cloud node to be configured and installed so that the corresponding resource equipment can create a corresponding instance to provide the cloud computing service;
3. edge cloud nodes may be governed, including but not limited to: the states, resource usage and/or infrastructure conditions and the like of applications, virtualized components and instances in the edge cloud nodes are managed and controlled, and remote operation and maintenance, log management and the like are achieved.
Besides the above functions, the central management and control device may also have other functions, such as a security guarantee function, which relates to security of the central management and control device, link security between the central management and control device and between edge management and control devices, and security of edge cloud nodes; and the system is responsible for maintaining networking information in a network system and the like.
The following describes a process in which the center management and control apparatus 101 and the edge management and control apparatus 103 cooperate with each other:
in the network system 100, at least one edge cloud node 102 may form a resource pool, and each edge cloud node 102 serves as a scheduling object and provides various resources or cloud computing services to the outside under the scheduling of the central management and control device 101. The central control device 101 and the edge control device 102 are mutually matched, and may perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 alone, or perform management and distribution of a mirror image for at least one edge cloud node 102 alone, or of course, perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102, and provide a mirror image for at least one edge cloud node 102. In addition to resource scheduling and mirror image management and distribution for the edge cloud node 102, management and control of the edge cloud node 102 in other aspects is also a problem to be solved by the network system 100, and successful solution of the problem is also a basis for "putting cloud computing into an edge cloud node closer to a terminal" to handle. For this purpose, the central management and control device 101 cooperates with the edge management and control device 102, and may otherwise manage at least one edge cloud node 102.
In the following embodiments of the present application, various functions implemented by the center management and control device 101 or the center management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 103 are described.
The control function:
in this embodiment of the application, the central management and control device may manage and control at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In detail, the edge management and control device may monitor the at least one edge cloud node and report the monitoring data to the central management and control device, so that the central management and control device manages and controls the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data. The central management and control device may manage and control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data reported by the edge management and control device. Optionally, for the edge management and control device, the edge management and control device may monitor at least one edge cloud node and report the monitoring data to the center management and control device under the control of the center management and control device. Or, the edge management and control device may periodically monitor at least one edge cloud node and report the monitoring data to the central management and control device according to the timing task. In any embodiment, the edge management and control device mainly performs functions of monitoring, data acquisition, reporting, and the like, and the management and control decision is determined by the central management and control device.
The central management and control device controls the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node, and may adopt but is not limited to the following optional embodiments:
in an optional embodiment, the central management and control device may send a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device to instruct the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension to the central management and control device. The first type of monitoring instruction is a monitoring instruction for instructing the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension. For the edge control device, a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device may be received, at least one edge cloud node is monitored from at least one monitoring dimension according to the first type of monitoring instruction, and monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension is reported to the central control device. And the central control equipment controls at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension reported by the edge control equipment. It is worth mentioning that at least one monitoring dimension can be flexibly set according to application requirements and is preset in the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment. See the subsequent examples for examples of monitoring dimensions.
In another optional embodiment, the central management and control device may selectively manage at least one edge cloud node in one or some monitoring dimensions. Based on this, the central management and control device may send a second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device, where the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to the specified monitoring dimension, and is used to instruct the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node in the specified monitoring dimension and report monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension. For the edge control device, the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device can be received, at least one edge cloud node is monitored in the specified monitoring dimension according to the second type of monitoring instruction, and monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension is reported to the central control device, so that the central control device can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension. The central control device is further configured to receive monitoring data in a specified monitoring dimension sent by the edge control device, and control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension.
It should be noted that the designated monitoring dimension may be one or more. When the designated monitoring dimensions are multiple, each designated monitoring dimension may correspond to one second-class monitoring instruction, that is, the central management and control device may send multiple second-class monitoring instructions to the edge management and control device, where each second-class monitoring instruction corresponds to one designated monitoring dimension. Or, in the case that the designated operation and maintenance degrees are multiple, multiple designated monitoring dimensions may also correspond to the same second type of monitoring instruction, that is, the central management and control device may send one second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device, where the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to multiple designated monitoring dimensions.
Optionally, the periodically monitoring, by the edge management and control device, the at least one edge cloud node according to the timing task may be periodically monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to the timing task; further, monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension can be reported to the central control device. The monitoring periods in different monitoring dimensions may be the same or different. For example, the edge management and control device may perform security vulnerability scanning on the edge cloud nodes every 10 minutes, or perform traffic monitoring on the edge cloud nodes every 5 minutes.
The at least one monitoring dimension or the specified monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following dimensions: object dimensions, log dimensions, security dimensions, resource dimensions, etc. in the run state. Further, the dimension of the object in the running state may include a running state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimensions may include: a traffic attack dimension and/or a security vulnerability dimension.
In combination with the above-listed monitoring dimensions, the central management and control device manages and controls at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device, including but not limited to at least one of the following management and control examples:
regulation example 1: and the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the running state dimension of the object to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment monitors the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the monitored running state of the object in the running state to the central management and control equipment. The central control device identifies an object with an abnormal operation state from the operation states of the objects in the operation states reported by the edge control device, and for convenience of description and distinction, the object with the abnormal operation state is called a target object, and exception handling is performed on the target object. The objects in the running state in the edge cloud node include but are not limited to: examples, images, containers, other virtual components, physical machines, CPUs, and/or hard disks, and the like. The abnormal conditions of the running state are different according to different objects in the running state. For example, for the purposes of the examples, possible abnormal situations include, but are not limited to: interrupts, error reports, and/or malfunctions, etc. As another example, for a physical machine, possible abnormal situations include, but are not limited to: the system comprises the following steps of halting, screen blacking, alarming and/or flash quitting of application programs running on the physical machine and the like. The exception handling manner may also be different according to the target object and the exception condition of the running state, and may include, but is not limited to: alerting, stopping or restarting the target object, migrating, and/or deleting and rebuilding the target object, etc.
Regulation example 2: and the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the life cycle dimension of the object to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control device monitors the life cycle of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control device or periodically according to a timing task, and reports the monitored life cycle of the object in the operation state to the central management and control device. And the central control equipment controls the object in the running state to stop, restart, migrate or delete after stopping according to the life cycle of the object in the running state reported by the edge control equipment.
Regulation example 3: the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to collect log data in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the log dimension to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment collects log data in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to a timing task, and reports the collected log data to the central management and control equipment. The central control device receives the log data reported by the edge control device, performs data analysis on the log data, and executes subsequent actions according to the data analysis result, such as charging, wind control and/or adding and subtracting instances. The follow-up action will be different according to the log data. Alternatively, the log data may include, but is not limited to: data such as various performances and indexes in the edge cloud node, for example: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining the bandwidth flow of an instance, the current operation condition of the instance, the IO load of the instance, the bandwidth flow of a physical machine, the current operation condition of the physical machine, the IO load of the physical machine, the operation condition of an edge management and control device and/or the operation condition of other virtualization components and the like.
Optionally, the central management and control device may collect log data of each edge cloud node reported by the edge management and control device, and further has a data inspection capability, and for some data, if the data stored in the central management and control device is inconsistent with the data in the edge cloud node, the latest data may be actively synchronized with the edge cloud node, for example, a mirror image of the latest version may be synchronized with the edge cloud node.
Regulation example 4: and the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the flow of at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the flow attack dimension to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control device monitors the flow of at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control device or periodically according to a timing task, and reports the monitored flow attack event to the central management and control device. The central management and control equipment blocks traffic attack events occurring in the edge cloud nodes. Optionally, the edge management and control device may further report the monitored traffic data to the center management and control device, and the center management and control device may further perform traffic attack defense and the like on at least one edge cloud node according to the traffic data.
Regulation example 5: and the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to scan the network security vulnerability of at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the network security dimension to the edge management and control equipment. And the edge management and control equipment scans the network security loophole of at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the scanned network security loophole problem to the central management and control equipment. And the central control equipment receives the network security loophole problem reported by the edge control equipment and repairs the network security loophole problem.
Regulation example 6: and the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the resource usage in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the step of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the resource dimension to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment monitors the resource usage in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the monitored resource usage information to the central management and control equipment. And the central control equipment performs resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node according to the resource usage information reported by the edge control equipment. The resources include various resource information, such as device resources like physical machines, storage resources, computing resources like CPUs and GPUs, network resources like bandwidths, and so on.
Further, if each edge cloud node is deployed with an edge management and control device, each edge management and control device may monitor the edge cloud node to which it belongs and report monitoring data in the edge cloud node to the central management and control device under the control of the central management and control device, or periodically according to a timing task. The central management and control device may receive monitoring data reported by the edge management and control device in each edge cloud node, and manage and control each edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in each edge cloud node.
The embodiment of the present application does not limit the implementation structures of the center management and control device and the edge management and control device. Optionally, as shown in fig. 1b, a structural framework of a central management and control device includes: the system comprises a resource scheduling control module, a mirror image control module and a central control module; the central management and control module further comprises: the system comprises a central monitoring unit, a central log unit, a central safety unit and the like. Accordingly, a structural framework of an edge management and control device is shown in fig. 1b, and comprises: the system comprises a resource scheduling service module, a mirror image service module and an edge management and control module; the edge management and control module further comprises: an edge monitoring unit, an edge log unit, an edge security unit, and the like.
The resource scheduling management and control module in the central management and control device is matched with the resource scheduling service module in the edge management and control device, so that resource scheduling can be performed on the edge cloud node, and the resource scheduling function can be referred to the description below. The mirror image management and control module in the central management and control device is matched with the mirror image service module in the edge management and control device, mirror image management and distribution can be performed on the edge cloud node, and the mirror image management and distribution function can be referred to the description below.
And a central control module in the central control equipment is matched with an edge control module in the edge control equipment, so that the edge cloud nodes can be controlled. The above-described management examples 1 to 6 may be implemented by cooperation of respective units in the center management module and the edge management module shown in fig. 1 b. The management example 3 may be implemented by matching a central log unit in the central management module with an edge log unit in the edge management module. In detail, the central log unit sends a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to log dimension to the edge log unit; the edge log unit acquires log data in the edge cloud node according to the first type or second type monitoring instruction and reports the log data to the central log unit; the central log unit performs data analysis on the log data and executes subsequent actions according to the data analysis result. The control examples 4 and 5 may be implemented by matching a central security unit in a central control module with an edge security unit in an edge control module. In detail, the central security unit sends a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge security unit or sends a second type of operation and maintenance instruction corresponding to traffic attack or network security dimension; the edge security unit can perform traffic monitoring or network security vulnerability scanning on the edge cloud nodes according to the first type or second type operation and maintenance instructions and report the monitored traffic attack events or network vulnerability security problems to the central security unit; the central security unit blocks the flow attack event or repairs the network security loophole problem. The control examples 1, 2, and 6 can be implemented by the central monitoring unit in the central control module and the edge monitoring unit in the edge control module in a matching manner, and detailed implementation processes are not described in detail.
As can be seen from the above, with the assistance of the edge management and control device, the central management and control device can know the health, resource usage, log data, and/or infrastructure conditions of each instance in the edge cloud node, and can implement remote operation and maintenance, log management, and the like.
In this embodiment of the application, except that the central management and control device may manage and control the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may autonomously manage and control the at least one edge cloud node when the central management and control device does not manage and control the edge cloud node or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node.
For example, the edge management and control device may monitor a connection condition between the edge management and control device and the central management and control device, and if the connection condition between the edge management and control device and the central management and control device is lost, it may be determined that the central management and control device cannot manage and control the edge cloud node, and then at least one edge cloud node may be autonomously managed and controlled from at least one monitoring dimension.
For another example, in a manner that the central management and control device sends the first type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may wait to receive the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device, and if the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received, it may be determined that the central management and control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node, and then the central management and control device may autonomously control the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension. Optionally, the edge management and control device and the central management and control device may agree in advance on a waiting duration of the first type of monitoring instruction, and if the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received after the waiting duration is exceeded, it is determined that the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received.
For another example, in a manner that the central management and control device sends the second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the specified monitoring dimension to the edge management and control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the specified monitoring dimension, the edge management and control device may wait to receive the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device, and if the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received in the specified monitoring dimension, it may be determined that the central management and control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node in the specified monitoring dimension, and then may autonomously control the at least one edge cloud node from the specified monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, if the edge management and control device autonomously manages and controls at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension under the condition that the edge management and control device loses connection with the central management and control device, after the edge management and control device restores connection with the central management and control device, management and control data during the connection loss period may be synchronized to the central management and control device. It should be noted that the management and control data mainly includes data of management and control policies, manners, effects, and the like, and may also include monitoring data.
The at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following dimensions: object dimensions, log dimensions, security dimensions, resource dimensions, etc. in the run state. Further, the dimension of the object in the running state may include a running state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimensions may include: a traffic attack dimension and/or a security vulnerability dimension.
In combination with the above listed monitoring dimensions, the edge management and control device autonomously manages and controls at least one edge cloud node, including but not limited to at least one of the following management and control examples:
the control example a: and autonomously monitoring the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored target object with the abnormal running state. For the object in the running state, the abnormal situation of the running state, and the like, reference may be made to the above description, and details are not described herein again.
Optionally, in example a, when performing exception handling on the target object, the edge management and control device is specifically configured to: analyzing the abnormal operation state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to the analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception handling on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Further, when the edge management and control device obtains the target processing manner, the edge management and control device is specifically configured to: under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is connected with the central management and control equipment, reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as a target processing mode; or, under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is disconnected with the central management and control equipment, outputting at least one candidate processing mode to the edge management and control personnel for the management and control personnel to select the processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management and control personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or under the condition of losing connection with the central management and control equipment, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
And the control example b is used for autonomously monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node and controlling the object in the running state to stop, restart after stopping or delete according to the monitoring result. For a container or instance, the container or instance may be controlled to stop executing, restart after stopping, delete, etc.
A management and control example c: the method comprises the steps of autonomously collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing follow-up actions according to data analysis results. The log data includes, but is not limited to, bandwidth traffic of an instance in the edge cloud node, a current operating condition of the instance, an IO load of the instance, bandwidth traffic of the physical machine, a current operating condition of the physical machine, an IO load of the physical machine, an operating condition of the edge management device, and/or operating conditions of other virtualization components. Optionally, subsequent actions such as charging, wind control and/or resource reallocation can be performed according to the analysis result of the log data, but is not limited thereto.
And the control example d is used for autonomously monitoring the traffic of at least one edge cloud node and blocking the monitored traffic attack event.
A management and control example e: and autonomously scanning at least one edge cloud node for network security vulnerabilities, and repairing the scanned network security vulnerabilities.
A management and control example f: and autonomously monitoring the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing resource expansion or reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result. Resources herein include, but are not limited to: device resources such as a physical machine, storage resources such as a memory and a magnetic disk, computing resources such as a CPU and a GPU, and network resources such as bandwidth. For these resources, when the usage amount is high, capacity expansion may be performed for these resources, and when the usage amount is low, capacity reduction may be performed for these resources.
Further, if each edge cloud node is deployed with an edge management and control device, each edge management and control device may autonomously manage and control the edge cloud node to which it belongs when the center management and control device does not manage or cannot manage the edge cloud node to which it belongs.
Optionally, in examples a to e in which the edge management and control device autonomously manages and controls the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may periodically manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to a timing task. For example, in example d, the edge management and control device may perform traffic monitoring on at least one edge cloud node every 10 minutes according to a timing task, and perform blocking processing on the monitored traffic attack event. For another example, in example e, the edge management and control device may perform network security vulnerability scanning on at least one edge cloud node every 5 minutes according to the timing task, and repair the scanned network security vulnerability problem. Of course, the edge management and control device may also autonomously manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to other autonomous policies, for example, the at least one edge cloud node may be autonomously managed and controlled at a certain fixed time point every day.
In some optional embodiments, the regulation may be a regulation of an operation and maintenance dimension. For example, the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In an operation and maintenance control scenario, the at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may be an operation and maintenance dimension, and the central control device may perform operation and maintenance control on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on the at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the designated operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge control device. In addition, under the condition that the central management and control device does not perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud nodes or cannot perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud nodes, the edge management and control device can autonomously perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node. For example, the edge management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitored at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the monitored data on the specified operation and maintenance dimension. For details of the operation and maintenance control performed on the at least one edge cloud node by the central control device or the edge control device, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, and details are not repeated herein.
In an operation and maintenance control scenario, as can be seen by combining the above examples 1 to 6 and examples a to f, in this embodiment, a central control device is combined with an edge control device, the central control device can perform operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge control device, in addition, the edge control device also has a certain capability of self-operation and maintenance control, and can perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node autonomously without or without performing operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node by the central control device, so as to implement two-stage operation and maintenance control, and can perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node more fully and comprehensively, provide a condition for "putting cloud computing into an edge cloud node closer to a terminal for processing", and further provide cloud computing service for a user by means of resources in the edge cloud node, which is beneficial to reduce response time delay, the pressure of a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform is reduced, and the bandwidth cost is reduced.
The resource scheduling function:
the central control device can perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud, and mainly determines a target edge cloud node which can be scheduled and scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 according to service demand description information; and sending the resource information to the edge management and control device 103, so that the edge management and control device 103 controls the corresponding resource device in the target edge cloud node to perform resource allocation or reservation. Optionally, the number of the target edge cloud nodes may be specified by a user, or may be autonomously determined by the resource center management and control device according to the service demand description information, and may be one or multiple. The service requirement description information can be directly submitted by the service demander, or can be extracted or calculated from service-related information submitted by the service demander. The service demander may be a user, or may be an application, a physical machine, or another service that needs a certain service, etc.
The resource scheduling functionality described herein includes, but is not limited to, two aspects, primarily selection of edge cloud nodes and scheduling of resources within edge cloud nodes. The resource scheduling in the edge cloud nodes is embodied as operations of determining scheduled resource information in target edge cloud nodes and providing the resource information, and the main purpose is to allocate cloud computing services to final basic resources, such as resource devices such as servers, on the granularity of each edge cloud node. The central management and control equipment can maintain the information of the resources contained in each edge cloud node as the basis of resource scheduling.
Optionally, the service requirement description information includes an edge cloud node selection parameter and a resource selection parameter. The edge cloud node selection parameters are parameters required for selecting target edge cloud nodes; the resource selection parameter refers to information required for selecting a scheduled resource in the edge cloud node. Based on the method, the central management and control equipment can analyze the edge cloud node selection parameters and the resource selection parameters from the service requirement description information; determining a scheduled target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node according to the edge cloud node selection parameters, and determining scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node according to the resource selection parameters.
For example, the service requirement description information may include QoS requirements of a scheduling domain and/or a cloud computing service, and these parameters may be used as edge cloud node selection parameters. Wherein the scheduling domain points to an area where cloud computing services need to be deployed, which determines the geographical location of the edge cloud node that should be scheduled. The QoS requirements of the cloud computing service may include requirements of the cloud computing service for network latency, load conditions, and/or bandwidth costs, among others. Based on this, the central management and control device may select, according to the QoS requirements of the scheduling domain and/or the cloud computing service, an edge cloud node that can meet the QoS requirements of the scheduling domain and/or the cloud computing service as a target edge cloud node in combination with the geographic location and the resource remaining amount of at least one edge cloud node.
For example, the central management and control device may select, according to the scheduling domain, an edge cloud node pointed by the scheduling domain as a target edge cloud node in combination with the geographic location of at least one edge cloud node. Or, the central management and control device may further select, according to QoS requirements of the cloud computing service, for example, requirements such as network latency, load conditions, and/or bandwidth costs, an edge cloud node that meets the requirements for network latency, load conditions, and/or bandwidth costs from the edge cloud nodes as a target edge cloud node. Of course, the central management and control device may also select, according to the QoS requirements of the scheduling domain and the cloud computing service, an edge cloud node that can simultaneously meet the QoS requirements of the scheduling domain and the cloud computing service as the target edge cloud node in combination with the geographic position and the resource remaining amount of the at least one edge cloud node.
The service requirement description information may include parameters such as resource types, resource quantities and/or performance of resource devices required by the cloud computing service, in addition to the information of the scheduling domain and/or the QoS requirements of the cloud computing service, and these parameters may be used as resource selection parameters. Based on this, after determining the target edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine the scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node according to the resource selection parameter. The resource information herein may include: and the edge management and control equipment can conveniently control the corresponding resource equipment in the target edge cloud node to perform resource allocation or reservation according to the information such as the resource type, the resource quantity and/or the performance requirement on the resource equipment. For example, resource types may include, but are not limited to: computing resources such as a CPU and a GPU, storage resources such as a memory and a hard disk, and resource types such as bandwidth resources. Taking CPU resources as an example, the number of resources may be 12 CPUs, 24 CPUs, and the like, and taking memory resources as an example, the number of resources may be 16G memory, 32G memory, and the like; taking bandwidth resources as an example, the number of resources may be 1M bandwidth, 10M bandwidth, and the like.
Optionally, the central management and control device may further have a function of computing power arrangement, where the computing power arrangement is oriented to a relatively complex application scenario, and multiple cloud computing services are bound together as a minimum resource demand unit, so that, in a resource scheduling process, the multiple cloud computing services bound together may be taken as a whole, one or more edge cloud nodes are selected for the multiple cloud computing services, and the one or more edge cloud nodes provide resources for the multiple cloud computing services together. The computational power arrangement improves the diversity of resource scheduling and increases the flexibility of resource scheduling, but does not influence the whole flow of resource scheduling.
In combination with the implementation structures of the central control device and the edge control device shown in fig. 1b, the resource scheduling function may be implemented by matching a resource scheduling control module and a resource scheduling service module, and the detailed process is not repeated.
Mirror image management and distribution function:
the mirror image management function of the central management and control equipment mainly refers to management of mirror images and provision of needed mirror images for edge cloud nodes. In this way, the edge cloud node may create instances on the respective resource devices according to the images, and the created instances provide the required cloud computing services for the user.
In practical applications, scenes that need to provide mirroring for edge cloud nodes are various. For example, in a case where a user (e.g., a service demander) submits service requirement description information, the central management and control device may provide a corresponding mirror for the scheduled target edge cloud node. For another example, when an existing instance on an edge cloud node provides cloud computing service for a user, and the user needs to perform service capacity expansion, the capacity expansion requirement may be submitted to the central management and control device, and in order to implement the capacity expansion purpose, a corresponding mirror image needs to be provided for the edge cloud node that is currently providing cloud computing service for the user, so that the edge cloud node creates a new instance based on the mirror image, thereby achieving the capacity expansion purpose. For convenience of description and differentiation, in the following description, an edge cloud node for which mirroring needs to be provided is referred to as a first edge cloud node, and the first edge cloud node may be any edge cloud node in the network system, depending on an application scenario. In the following, taking the example that the central control device provides a mirror image for the first edge cloud node, a mirror image management function of the central control device is described.
When a mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine a target mirror image that needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node; and then, providing the target image for the first edge cloud node, so that the first edge cloud node provides cloud computing service by using the target image.
In the network system 100 of the present embodiment, a mirror library for storing mirrors in the system is maintained. The user may choose to use the mirror in the mirror library. For example, a mirror configuration interface may be provided for a user, where the interface is provided with a pull-down menu that includes a number of mirrors that the user may select, and the user may select the mirror that he or she uses. Based on this, when the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may acquire the mirror image needed by the first edge cloud node from the mirror image library, then provide the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, and open the use authority of the mirror image to the corresponding user. Optionally, the central management and control device may directly issue the target image to the first edge cloud node, or may instruct the first edge cloud node to download the target image to a specified storage location.
In addition, the central management and control equipment can also maintain the corresponding relation between the issued mirror images and the edge cloud nodes where the issued mirror images are located. The corresponding relationship may include identification information of the issued mirror image and identification information of an edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located. The issued mirror image refers to a mirror image which is provided (for example, issued) to a certain edge cloud node or certain edge cloud nodes by the central control equipment; the edge cloud node where the issued image is located refers to the edge cloud node to which the issued image is provided. The same image may be provided (e.g., distributed) to one edge cloud node or may be provided (e.g., distributed) to multiple edge cloud nodes.
Based on the maintained corresponding relationship between the issued mirror image and the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located, when the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central control device can also control the first edge cloud node to acquire the mirror image from other edge cloud nodes already provided with the mirror image, the mirror image does not need to be directly provided for the first edge cloud node, the processing burden of the central control device can be reduced to a certain extent, and the acquisition efficiency of the mirror image can be improved under the condition of reasonable control.
In detail, when a mirror image needs to be provided for a first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine the mirror image that needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, and in order to facilitate description and differentiation, in this embodiment of the present application, the mirror image that needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node is denoted as a target mirror image; matching the maintained issued mirror image with the corresponding relation of the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located according to the information of the target mirror image; if a second edge cloud node corresponding to the target image is matched in the corresponding relationship, which indicates that the target image has been provided to the second edge cloud node, the target image at the second edge cloud node may be provided to the first edge cloud node; the second edge cloud node may also be an edge cloud node in the network system, and the number of the second edge cloud nodes may be one or multiple. For a first edge cloud node, a target image at a second edge cloud node may be acquired under the control of the central management and control device 101.
Here, in the case that the network system 100 includes the edge management and control device 103, the central management and control device may specifically send information of a second edge cloud node and a target mirror image to the edge management and control device; the edge management and control device 103 provides the target mirror image at the second edge cloud node to a corresponding resource device in the first edge cloud node according to the information of the second edge cloud node and the target mirror image, so that the corresponding resource device creates an instance capable of providing cloud computing service according to the target mirror image, and further provides the cloud computing service for a service demander. The information of the second edge cloud node may be any information capable of identifying the second edge cloud node, and may be, for example, information such as an ID, a name, or a geographic location of the second edge cloud node. The information of the target image may be any information capable of identifying the target image, and may be, for example, an ID, a name or a number of the target image.
Further, under the condition that the edge control device 103 is deployed in both the first edge cloud node and the second edge cloud node, the central control device 101 may specifically send information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge control device in the first edge cloud node, so that the edge control device in the first edge cloud node obtains the target image from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge control device in the second edge cloud node and the edge control device in the first edge cloud node, and provides the target image to a corresponding resource device in the first edge cloud node. For the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node, the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image sent by the central management and control device 101 may be received, the target image is obtained from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the second edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node according to the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image, the target image is provided to the corresponding resource device in the first edge cloud node, and the corresponding resource device creates an instance capable of providing cloud computing service according to the target image, so as to provide cloud computing service.
Further, a process of the edge controller 103 in the first edge cloud node acquiring the target image from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge controller and the edge controller in the second edge cloud node includes: the edge control device 103 in the first edge cloud node sends a request for acquiring the target image to the edge control device 103 in the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge control device 103 in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node, where the request carries information of the target image. The edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node receives the request, and determines whether a target mirror exists in the second edge cloud node according to information of the target mirror carried in the request, and returns the target mirror to the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node when the target mirror exists in the second edge cloud node, or returns a storage address of the target mirror in the second edge cloud node to the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node. The edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node receives the target image returned by the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node, or receives a storage address of the target image returned by the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node, and reads or downloads the target image according to the storage address.
It should be noted that the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node may establish a communication channel by themselves, or may establish a channel under the control of the central management and control device 101. Optionally, the central management and control device may further control the establishment of the communication channel between different edge management and control devices, and is responsible for maintaining information of an existing communication channel between the edge management and control devices, for example, information of which edge management and control devices have established the communication channel between them, when the communication channel is established, a state of the communication channel, a duration of the communication channel, and the like may be maintained. Based on this, after determining that the target image has been provided to the second edge cloud node and before providing the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may further determine, according to the maintained information of the existing communication channel between the edge management and control devices, whether a communication channel already exists between the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node; if the determination result is negative, that is, no communication channel exists between the edge control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node, the edge control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node may be controlled to establish the communication channel, so that the edge control device in the first edge cloud node can obtain the target mirror image from the second edge cloud node through the communication channel. And after the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node establishes a communication channel with the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node, the center management and control device provides the information of the second edge cloud node and the target mirror image to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node. Of course, if the determination result is yes, that is, a communication channel already exists between the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node, the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image may be directly provided to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node.
It should be noted that, after providing the information of the second edge cloud node and the target mirror image to the edge control device in the first edge cloud node, the central control device may also determine, according to the maintained information of the existing communication channel between the edge control devices, whether a communication channel already exists between the edge control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node; if the determination result is negative, that is, no communication channel exists between the edge control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node, the edge control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge control device in the second edge cloud node may be controlled to establish the communication channel, so that the edge control device in the first edge cloud node can obtain the target mirror image from the second edge cloud node through the communication channel.
In some optional embodiments, in order to ensure the efficiency of obtaining the target image by the first edge cloud node, before providing the target image at the second edge cloud node to the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may further determine, according to an attribute of the second edge cloud node, whether the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target image for the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, namely the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node, the target mirror image at the second edge cloud node can be provided for the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is negative, the target mirror image can be obtained from the mirror image library and provided for the first edge cloud node.
It should be noted that, according to different application scenarios and application requirements, it may be determined from different angles whether the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node, in combination with different attributes of the second edge cloud node. The following examples illustrate:
for example, whether the operator to which the second edge cloud node belongs is the same as the operator to which the first edge cloud node belongs may be determined in combination with the operator to which the second edge cloud node belongs; if the result of the judgment is yes, the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node are edge cloud nodes under the same operator, the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node can perform data transmission, and the data transmission rate is higher than the data transmission rate of the cross-operator, so that the target mirror image is suitable for being provided for the first edge cloud node.
For another example, whether the distance between the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node is smaller than a set distance threshold may be determined in combination with the location attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the fact that the second edge cloud node is close to the first edge cloud node is indicated, and the target mirror image is suitable for being provided for the first edge cloud node, so that the second edge cloud node close to the first edge cloud node provides the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, the first edge cloud node can conveniently and quickly obtain the mirror image, and efficiency is improved. The distance between the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node may be an average distance between the two edge cloud nodes, may also be a distance between centers of the two edge cloud nodes, may also be a distance between outer edges of the two edge cloud nodes that are closest to each other, and the like, and may be flexibly defined according to requirements.
For another example, whether the available bandwidth of the second edge cloud node is greater than the set bandwidth threshold may be determined in combination with the bandwidth attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the bandwidth resources of the second edge cloud node are sufficient, and the target mirror image is suitable for being provided for the first edge cloud node.
For another example, whether the load capacity of the second edge cloud node is smaller than a set load capacity threshold may be determined in combination with the load attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the load of the second edge cloud node is light, and the target mirror image is suitable for being provided for the first edge cloud node, so that the second edge cloud node with the light load provides the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, on one hand, load balancing can be achieved, on the other hand, the first edge cloud node can conveniently and quickly obtain the mirror image, and efficiency is improved.
It should be noted that the above-listed modes can be used alternatively or in combination in any combination, and the combination is not described too much.
Further, when there are a plurality of second edge cloud nodes, the above-described several ways may be combined and used in combination with a plurality of attributes of the second edge cloud nodes, and then the second edge cloud node suitable for providing the target image for the first edge cloud node is selected from the second edge cloud nodes. For example, if there are a plurality of second edge cloud nodes, a second edge cloud node belonging to the same operator as the first edge cloud node may be selected from the plurality of second edge cloud nodes in combination with the operators to which the plurality of second edge cloud nodes belong; furthermore, if there are still a plurality of selected second edge cloud nodes, the second edge cloud node with the smallest load capacity or lower than the set load capacity threshold may be further selected according to the load capacity of the selected second edge cloud nodes, and a target mirror image is provided for the first edge cloud node.
In some optional embodiments, the target image may already be provided to the first edge cloud node, for example, in a business expansion scenario, the image that needs to be used to create a new instance in an edge cloud node that is currently providing cloud computing service for a service demander is the same as the image that has been used by a previous existing instance, and if the image that has been used by the previous existing instance is also stored in the edge cloud node, the image that has been used by the edge cloud node may not be provided repeatedly. For this situation, in order to save resources, before providing the target image at the second edge cloud node to the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine whether the maintained correspondence between the issued image and the edge cloud node where the issued image is located includes the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the target mirror image is provided for the first edge cloud node, and the first edge cloud node still stores the target mirror image, the information of the target mirror image can be provided for the first edge cloud node, so that the first edge cloud node can read the target mirror image stored in the first edge cloud node without transmitting the target mirror image again, and network resources consumed by transmitting the target mirror image can be saved; if the judgment result is negative, it indicates that the target mirror image has not been provided to the first edge cloud node, or the target mirror image does not exist in the first edge cloud node, the target mirror image at the second edge cloud node may be provided to the first edge cloud node. Under the condition that edge control equipment is deployed in the first edge cloud node, if the central control equipment judges that the maintained corresponding relationship between the issued mirror image and the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located contains the target mirror image, the information of the target mirror image can be provided for the edge control equipment in the first edge cloud node, the edge control equipment in the first edge cloud node can acquire the target mirror image from a space for storing the mirror image in the first edge cloud node according to the information of the target mirror image, and the target mirror image is provided for corresponding resource equipment in the first edge cloud node so that the corresponding resource equipment can create an instance capable of providing cloud computing service according to the target mirror image.
Further alternatively, the same edge cloud node may provide multiple cloud computing services for the same user or different users, and may receive multiple images, which may be stored in the edge cloud node. The edge cloud node may provide a certain storage space for storing the mirror image. Considering that the storage space of the mirror image in the edge cloud node has certain limitation, in order to have enough storage space to store the newly received mirror image, the edge cloud node needs to perform elimination processing on the locally stored mirror image. In this embodiment, the central management and control device is responsible for providing a culling policy of the mirror image for the edge cloud node. The central control equipment can generate a removal strategy of the mirror image, the removal strategy is issued to each edge cloud node, and each edge cloud node performs removal processing on the stored mirror image according to the removal strategy. When the network system includes the edge control device, the central control device may issue the elimination policy to the edge control device, and the edge control device performs elimination processing on the mirror image stored in each edge cloud node according to the elimination policy. Further, under the condition that each edge cloud node is provided with an edge control device, the central control device may issue the elimination policy to the edge control devices in the edge cloud nodes, and the edge control devices in the edge cloud nodes eliminate the mirror images stored in the edge cloud nodes to which the edge control devices belong according to the elimination policy.
Alternatively, the elimination policy may be an earliest-reception-time elimination policy, that is, images with earliest reception times are preferentially eliminated according to the reception times of the images. Or, the elimination strategy may be a least frequently used elimination strategy, that is, images with the least frequently used are preferentially eliminated according to the use frequency of the images. Or, the elimination strategy may be the elimination strategy occupying the largest resource, that is, the image occupying the largest storage space is preferentially eliminated according to the size of the storage space occupied by the image.
For the edge cloud node, the mirror image stored in the node can be eliminated periodically according to the elimination strategy; or, when a new mirror image needs to be received or acquired, it may be determined whether there is enough storage space in the node to store the new mirror image, and when there is not enough storage space in the node, according to the above-mentioned elimination policy, the mirror image stored in the node is subjected to elimination processing, so as to store the new mirror image. Taking the example that the first edge cloud node needs to acquire the target image from the second edge cloud node, before the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node acquires the target image from the second edge cloud node, the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node may determine whether there is enough storage space in the first edge cloud node to store the target image; and if the first edge cloud node does not have enough storage space, performing elimination processing on the mirror image stored in the first edge cloud node according to an elimination strategy so as to have enough storage space to store the target mirror image. Optionally, if there is enough storage space in the first edge cloud node, the mirror image stored in the first edge cloud node may not be obsolete temporarily.
Optionally, as shown in fig. 1c, the network system 100 further includes: the image construction device 104. The image construction device 104 may be deployed in one or more edge cloud nodes, and is mainly responsible for construction, verification, and the like of an application image. The mirror image constructing device 104 may provide an edge cloud environment, may construct a mirror image adapted to the edge cloud environment, may also verify whether the mirror image is adapted to the edge cloud environment, may reconstruct a mirror image not adapted to the edge cloud environment, or output a prompt message not adapted, and the like. Based on the image construction device 104, the user can add an image to the network system 100.
In an optional implementation manner of the added mirror image, a user (for example, a service demander) may submit a first request of the added mirror image to the central management and control device, where the first request includes mirror image construction information; the method comprises the steps that a central management and control device sends a construction request to a mirror image construction device, wherein the construction request comprises mirror image construction information; after receiving the construction request, the mirror construction equipment acquires mirror construction information from the construction request, constructs a mirror matched with the edge cloud environment according to the mirror construction information, and returns the constructed mirror to the central control equipment; the central management and control equipment receives the newly constructed mirror image returned by the mirror image construction equipment and adds the mirror image into the mirror image library, thereby enriching the mirror image library continuously.
In another optional implementation of the newly added mirror image, a rule and a specification of the mirror image may be provided for a user (for example, a service demander), so that the user makes or generates the mirror image by himself, and the mirror image generated or made by the user needs to meet related requirements of security, specification, and the like of the edge cloud environment. After the user makes or generates the mirror image, a second request for adding a mirror image may be sent to the central management and control device, where the second request includes the mirror image to be added, and the added mirror image refers to the mirror image made or generated by the user. The central control equipment receives the second request, acquires the mirror image to be newly added from the second request, and sends the mirror image to be newly added to the mirror image construction equipment; the mirror image construction equipment adapts the mirror image to be newly added to the edge cloud environment; if the mirror image to be newly added is matched with the edge cloud environment, the mirror image construction equipment returns a message of matching the mirror image to be newly added with the edge cloud environment to the central control equipment; and if the mirror image to be newly added is not matched with the edge cloud environment, the mirror image construction equipment returns a message that the mirror image to be newly added is not matched with the edge cloud environment to the central control equipment.
For the central control equipment, if a message that the mirror image to be newly added is matched with the edge cloud environment and returned by the mirror image construction equipment is received, adding the mirror image to be newly added into a mirror image library; and if a message that the mirror image to be newly added and the edge cloud environment are not matched is received, the mirror image construction service mirror image construction equipment returns, or the user is informed to re-submit the mirror image to be newly added after the mirror image to be newly added is reconstructed, or the user is informed to provide a reconstruction method of the mirror image to be newly added, so that the mirror image construction service mirror image construction equipment reconstructs the mirror image to be newly added into a mirror image matched with the edge cloud environment according to the reconstruction method. If the user provides a reconstruction method of the mirror image to be newly added, the central control device can provide the reconstruction method for the mirror image construction device, the mirror image construction device reconstructs the mirror image to be newly added according to the reconstruction method so as to enable the mirror image to be matched with the edge cloud environment, and the reconstructed mirror image is returned to the central control device; and the central management and control equipment receives the reconstructed mirror image and adds the mirror image to a mirror image library.
It should be noted that the image building apparatus 104 may be a logical apparatus having functions of image building, verifying, and the like, and these functions may be implemented by deploying one physical machine or virtual machine, or may be deployed on multiple physical machines or virtual machines in a distributed manner. Of course, the image construction device 104 of the present embodiment may also be one or more physical devices having functions of image construction, verification, and the like. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the implementation structure of the mirror image construction device, and all the device structures having the above functions are applicable to the embodiment of the present application.
In the embodiment of the application, the mirror image can be added into the mirror image library newly, and the mirror image which is not used or is not used for a long time can be deleted, so that the storage space is saved. For example, the central management and control device may periodically or in real time count the use frequency of each mirror image in the mirror image library, regard a mirror image whose use frequency is less than a frequency threshold as a mirror image to be deleted, and execute a mirror image deletion process to delete the mirror image. For another example, the central control device may also receive an image deletion request submitted by a user (e.g., a service demander), use the image deleted by the image deletion request as the image to be deleted, and execute an image deletion process to delete the image. The image deletion request may carry information of the image to be deleted, such as an ID, a name, or a number.
For the central management and control device, the mirror image to be deleted may be determined by any of the above manners, and after the mirror image to be deleted is determined, on one hand, the mirror image to be deleted may be deleted from the mirror image library, and on the other hand, the edge cloud node storing the mirror image to be deleted may be instructed to delete the mirror image to be deleted. The central management and control equipment can match the maintained corresponding relation between the issued mirror image and the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located according to the mirror image to be deleted, and the edge cloud node where the mirror image to be deleted is stored is determined according to the matching result. If the third edge cloud node corresponding to the mirror image to be deleted is matched in the corresponding relation, the mirror image to be deleted is issued to the third edge cloud node, and the mirror image to be deleted is still stored in the third edge cloud node, so that a deletion instruction is sent to the third edge cloud node, and the deletion instruction carries information of the mirror image to be deleted so as to instruct the third edge cloud node to delete the mirror image to be deleted stored in the third edge cloud node. The number of the third edge cloud nodes may be one or more.
Here, in the case that the network system 100 includes the edge management and control device 103, the central management and control device may specifically send the deletion instruction to the edge management and control device 103; the edge management and control equipment 103 receives a deletion instruction issued by the center management and control equipment, acquires information of the mirror image to be deleted from the deletion instruction, and judges whether the mirror image to be deleted is stored in the third edge cloud node or not according to the information of the mirror image to be deleted; and if the mirror image to be deleted is stored, deleting the mirror image to be deleted in the third edge cloud node. Further, if an edge control device 103 is deployed in the third edge cloud node, the central control device 101 may specifically send the delete instruction to the edge control device 103 in the third edge cloud node; the edge management and control equipment 103 in the third edge cloud node receives a deletion instruction issued by the center management and control equipment, acquires information of the mirror image to be deleted from the deletion instruction, and judges whether the mirror image to be deleted is stored in the third edge cloud node or not according to the information of the mirror image to be deleted; and if the mirror image to be deleted is stored, deleting the stored mirror image to be deleted in the third edge cloud node.
And when the central management and control equipment deletes the mirror image to be deleted from the mirror image library, and the edge cloud node storing the mirror image to be deleted also deletes the mirror image to be deleted stored in the edge cloud node, the mirror image deletion process is completed.
For the resource device in the edge cloud node, in any way, after the mirror image is acquired, the resources such as computation, network, storage and the like can be provided for the instance in a virtualized form through the capability supported by hardware or software under the control of the edge management and control device 103, and the corresponding mirror image can be mounted to the corresponding instance in a system disk form. After the instance creation is completed, the instance is tried to be started, and after the corresponding instance is successfully started, the cloud computing service can be provided by utilizing the capability of the resource devices. The resource device provides resources such as computation, network and storage for the example under the control of the edge management and control device, and comprises: the edge management and control equipment applies for related computing resources, storage resources and/or network resources from the resources distributed or reserved in the target edge node cloud point according to a resource template provided by the center management and control equipment; and (4) creating actions of related resources by calling executors such as computation, storage, network and the like in the target edge cloud node. Wherein the creating action of the resource comprises: processing and storing related resources, creating a system disk of an instance according to configuration information of a mirror image and contents of the mirror image, and creating a corresponding data disk according to a resource template; creating instance dependent network resources, such as IP addresses, virtual switches, etc.; and creating a computing resource in conjunction with the resource template.
In combination with the implementation structures of the central management and control device and the edge management and control device shown in fig. 1b, the mirror image management and distribution function may be implemented by matching the mirror image management and control module and the mirror image service module, and detailed descriptions of the detailed processes are omitted.
In summary, in the network system provided in the embodiment of the present application, resource scheduling, mirror image management, operation and maintenance of edge cloud nodes are uniformly managed and controlled based on a centralized management and control manner, so that the edge cloud nodes can be managed and coordinated to the maximum extent, errors caused by single-point self-control or asynchronous information of the whole network can be reduced, optimization of resource scheduling can be achieved by using the centralized management and control characteristic, and the situation of edge local resource waste is avoided.
In addition to the above network system, the embodiments of the present application provide a management and control method from the perspective of an edge management and control device, which is described in detail below.
Fig. 2a is a schematic flowchart of a management and control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. This embodiment is described from the perspective of an edge policing apparatus, as shown in fig. 2a, the method comprising:
21a, determining that a central management and control device in the network system does not manage or cannot manage at least one edge cloud node in the network system.
And 22a, autonomously managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node.
In an optional embodiment, when determining that the central management device does not or cannot manage the edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may adopt, but is not limited to, at least one of the following manners:
mode 1: whether the connection with the central control equipment is kept or not is judged, and under the condition that the connection with the central control equipment is lost, the central control equipment cannot control the edge cloud nodes.
Mode 2: the central control device sends a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge control device to control the edge control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node. Based on this, the edge management and control device may determine whether the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the center management and control device is received, and determine that the center management and control device does not or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node when the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the center management and control device is not received. Optionally, the edge management and control device and the central management and control device may agree in advance on a waiting duration of the first type of monitoring instruction, and if the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received after the waiting duration is exceeded, it is determined that the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received.
Mode 3: the center control device sends a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the specified monitoring dimension to the edge control device to control the edge control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from the specified monitoring dimension. Based on this, the edge management and control device may determine whether to receive the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the center management and control device in the specified monitoring dimension; and under the condition that the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, determining that the central control equipment does not or cannot control the edge cloud node in the appointed monitoring dimension.
Further, in the method 1, after the edge management and control device and the central management and control device recover connection, the edge management and control device may also synchronize management and control data during the connection loss period to the central management and control device.
In any case, when it is determined that the central management and control device does not or cannot manage and control the edge cloud nodes in the designated monitoring dimension, the edge management and control device may autonomously manage and control the edge cloud nodes. Optionally, the edge management and control device manages and controls the edge cloud node, including but not limited to at least one of the following operations:
performing state monitoring on an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on a target object with an abnormal monitored operating state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operating state to stop, restart after stopping, migrate or delete according to the monitoring result;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, performing data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out blocking processing aiming at the monitored traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is repaired;
and monitoring the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing resource expansion or volume reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result.
Further optionally, when performing exception handling on a target object with an abnormal monitored running state, analyzing the abnormal running state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate handling manner according to an analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception handling on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Optionally, obtaining the target processing manner from at least one candidate processing manner includes:
under the condition of keeping connection with the central control equipment, reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as a target processing mode; or
Under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, outputting at least one candidate processing mode to the edge management and control personnel for the management and control personnel to select the processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management and control personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or
And under the condition of losing connection with the central management and control equipment, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy. The selection policy may be flexibly set according to an application scenario, which is not limited in the present application. For example, the selection policy may be to select the simplest processing mode, or to select the processing mode with the least resource consumption, and so on. The performance or attribute of each processing method may be known in advance or may be determined in real time.
It should be noted that, in the case that the edge management and control device is connected to the central management and control device, at least one candidate processing manner may be output to the edge management and control person, and the edge management and control person may select a target processing manner to use. The embodiment of the present application is not limited to this, and for example, the information may be output to a terminal device, such as a mobile phone and a computer, used by an edge manager in a manner of a short message, an in-application message, a system message and/or an email.
Further, if each edge cloud node is deployed with an edge management and control device, each edge management and control device may autonomously manage and control the edge cloud node to which it belongs when the center management and control device does not manage or cannot manage the edge cloud node to which it belongs.
Optionally, the edge management and control device autonomously manages and controls the at least one edge cloud node, and may periodically manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the timing task. Of course, the edge management and control device may also autonomously manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to other autonomous policies, for example, the at least one edge cloud node may be autonomously managed and controlled at a certain fixed time point every day.
Further, besides the edge management and control device autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may also assist the center management and control device in managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node. As shown in fig. 2b, the process of the edge management and control device assisting the center management and control device in managing and controlling the edge cloud node includes:
21b, monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system;
and 22b, reporting the monitoring data to a central control device in the network system so that the central control device can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
Optionally, the edge management and control device may periodically monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension according to a timing task. Or, the edge management and control device may monitor at least one edge cloud node in the network system under the control of the central management and control device. Regarding the control method of the center management and control device on the edge management and control device, the embodiment of the present application is not limited, and two optional embodiments are described below.
In an alternative embodiment, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension to the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension.
In another alternative embodiment, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node on a specified monitoring dimension according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension to a central control device, so that the central control device can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, the edge management and control device may assist the center management and control device in managing and controlling the edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension, which is described in the following.
In example 1, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitored running state of the object in the running state to central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can identify the target object with abnormal running state and perform exception processing on the target object.
In example 2, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to a central control device, so that the central control device can control the object in the running state to stop, restart or delete the object after the object in the running state stops;
in example 3, the implementation of step 21b includes: and collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: reporting the log data to a central control device, so that the central control device can perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to the data analysis result;
in example 4, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring the flow of at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: reporting the monitored traffic attack event to a central control device for the central control device to block the traffic attack event;
in example 5, the implementation of step 21b includes: and performing network security vulnerability scanning on at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: reporting the scanned network security vulnerability problem to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the network security vulnerability problem;
in example 6, the implementation of step 21b includes: resource usage in at least one edge cloud node is monitored. Accordingly, the implementation of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitored resource usage information to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node.
In the embodiment of the method, the center management and control device is combined with the edge management and control device, and the edge management and control device can assist the center management and control device in managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node, and in addition, the edge management and control device also has certain self-management and control capability, so that the edge cloud node can be autonomously managed and controlled under the condition that the center management and control device does not or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node, two-stage management and control are realized, the edge cloud node can be more fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, conditions are provided for placing cloud computing into the edge cloud node closer to a terminal for processing, cloud computing service can be provided for a user by means of resources in the edge cloud node, response delay is favorably reduced, pressure of a center cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform is reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.
It should be noted that the "control" in the above method embodiment may be the control of the operation and maintenance dimension. For example, the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In an operation and maintenance control scenario, the at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may be an operation and maintenance dimension, and the central control device may perform operation and maintenance control on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on the at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the designated operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge control device. In addition, under the condition that the central management and control device does not perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud nodes or cannot perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud nodes, the edge management and control device can autonomously perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node. For example, the edge management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitored at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the monitored data on the specified operation and maintenance dimension. For details of the operation and maintenance control performed on the at least one edge cloud node by the central control device or the edge control device, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, and details are not repeated herein.
It should be noted that in some of the flows described in the above embodiments and the drawings, a plurality of operations are included in a specific order, but it should be clearly understood that the operations may be executed out of the order presented herein or in parallel, and the sequence numbers of the operations, such as 21a, 22a, etc., are merely used for distinguishing different operations, and the sequence numbers themselves do not represent any execution order. Additionally, the flows may include more or fewer operations, and the operations may be performed sequentially or in parallel. It should be noted that, the descriptions of "first", "second", etc. in this document are used for distinguishing different messages, devices, modules, etc., and do not represent a sequential order, nor limit the types of "first" and "second" to be different.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a central management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 3, the center managing and controlling apparatus includes: memory 31, processor 32 and communication component 33.
A memory 31 for storing a computer program and may be configured to store other various data to support operations on the central administration device. Examples of such data include instructions, messages, pictures, videos, etc. for any application or method operating on the central governing device.
A processor 32, coupled to the memory 31, for executing the computer program in the memory 31 for: monitoring data, which is reported by the edge control device and is directed to at least one edge cloud node in the network system, is received through the communication component 33, and the at least one edge cloud node is controlled according to the monitoring data.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 32 is specifically configured to: sending a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device through the communication component 33 to instruct the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension to the center management and control device; and managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension reported by the edge management and control equipment. The first type of monitoring instruction is a monitoring instruction for instructing the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension. It should be noted that the monitoring dimension can be flexibly set according to the application requirement, and is preset in the edge control device and the central control device.
Alternatively, the processor 32 is specifically configured to: sending a second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device through the communication component 33, where the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to the specified monitoring dimension and is used for instructing the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node in the specified monitoring dimension and report monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension; and managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on the designated monitoring dimension.
It should be noted that the designated monitoring dimension may be one or more. In the case that there are a plurality of designated monitoring dimensions, each designated monitoring dimension may correspond to one second type monitoring instruction.
The at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following dimensions: object dimensions, log dimensions, security dimensions, resource dimensions, etc. in the run state. Further, the dimension of the object in the running state may include a running state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimensions may include: a traffic attack dimension and/or a security vulnerability dimension.
In conjunction with the several monitoring dimensions listed above, processor 32 is specifically configured to perform, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:
controlling the edge control equipment to perform state monitoring on an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node; receiving the running state of an object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment; identifying an object with an abnormal operation state from the operation states of the objects in the operation states reported by the edge management and control equipment, in order to facilitate description and distinction, calling the object with the abnormal operation state as a target object, and performing exception processing on the target object; or
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to monitor the life cycle of an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node; receiving a life cycle of an object in a running state reported by an edge management and control device; controlling the object in the running state to stop according to the life cycle of the object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment, and restarting or deleting the object after stopping; or
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to collect log data in at least one edge cloud node; receiving log data reported by edge management and control equipment; performing data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to the data analysis result, such as charging, wind control and/or adding and reducing instances; or
Controlling the edge control equipment to monitor the flow of at least one edge cloud node; receiving a traffic attack event reported by an edge control device; blocking a traffic attack event occurring in an edge cloud node; or
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to scan at least one edge cloud node for network security vulnerabilities; receiving a network security vulnerability problem reported by an edge control device; repairing the network security vulnerability problem; or
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to monitor the resource usage in at least one edge cloud node; receiving resource usage information reported by edge management and control equipment; and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node according to the resource usage information reported by the edge management and control equipment.
Optionally, the "management and control" in this embodiment may be management and control of an operation and maintenance dimension, and then, the processor 32 may be specifically configured to: and receiving monitoring data which is reported by the edge control equipment and aims at least one edge cloud node in the network system, and carrying out operation and maintenance control on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data. Further, the processor 32 may also control the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one operation and maintenance dimension or a specified operation and maintenance dimension; and performing operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node according to at least one operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge control equipment or monitoring data on a specified operation and maintenance dimension. For details on controlling the edge management and control device to monitor and manage at least one edge cloud node from at least one operation and maintenance dimension or a specified operation and maintenance dimension, reference may be made to the foregoing description, and details are not described herein again.
Further, as shown in fig. 3, the center managing and controlling apparatus further includes: display 34, power supply 35, and audio 36. Only some of the components are schematically shown in fig. 3, and it is not meant that the central managing device includes only the components shown in fig. 3. In addition, the components within the dashed line frame in fig. 3 are optional components, and may be determined according to the implementation form of the central control device. If the central governing device is a server-like device, optionally, the display 34 and audio component 36 may not be included; if the central control device is in the form of a terminal device, optionally, a display 34 and an audio component 36 may be included.
Accordingly, the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, where the computer program, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps or operations that may be performed by the central control apparatus in the foregoing method embodiments.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an edge management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus includes: a memory 41 and a processor 42.
A memory 41 for storing computer programs and may be configured to store other various data to support operations on the edge policing device. Examples of such data include instructions, messages, pictures, videos, etc. for any application or method operating on the edge governance device.
A processor 42, coupled to the memory 41, for executing the computer program in the memory 41 to: determining that a central management and control device in the network system does not or cannot manage and control at least one edge cloud node in the network system; and autonomously managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node.
In an optional embodiment, when determining that the central control device does not or cannot control the edge cloud node, the processor 42 is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
under the condition that the edge control equipment is disconnected with the central control equipment, determining that the central control equipment cannot control at least one edge cloud node; or
Under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by central control equipment is not received, determining that the central control equipment does not or cannot control at least one edge cloud node; or
And under the condition that a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, determining that the central control equipment does not or cannot control at least one edge cloud node in the appointed monitoring dimension.
Further, processor 42 is also configured to: after the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment recover connection, the management and control data in the connection loss period are synchronized to the central management and control equipment.
In an optional embodiment, when autonomously managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node, the processor 42 is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
performing state monitoring on an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on a target object with an abnormal monitored operating state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operating state to stop, restart or delete after stopping according to the monitoring result;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, performing data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out blocking processing aiming at the monitored traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is repaired;
and monitoring the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing resource expansion or volume reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result.
Further optionally, when performing exception handling on the target object with the abnormal monitored running state, the processor 42 is specifically configured to: analyzing the abnormal operation state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to the analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception handling on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Optionally, as shown in fig. 4, the edge management and control apparatus of this embodiment further includes: a communication component 43. When the processor 42 obtains the target processing manner from the at least one candidate processing manner, it is specifically configured to: under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is connected with the central management and control equipment, reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central management and control equipment as a target processing mode through the communication component 43; or, under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is disconnected with the central management and control equipment, outputting at least one candidate processing mode to the edge management and control personnel for the management and control personnel to select the processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management and control personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or, under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is disconnected with the central management and control equipment, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 42 is further configured to: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system, and reporting the monitoring data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
Optionally, the processor 42 is further configured to: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central control equipment. For example, the processor 42 is specifically configured to: monitoring at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by a central control device, and reporting monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension to the central control device so that the central control device can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on at least one monitoring dimension; or monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a specified monitoring dimension according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device, and reporting monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension to the central control device, so that the central control device can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension.
Optionally, the processor 42 is further configured to periodically monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension according to the timing task, and report monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension to the central management and control device, so that the central management and control device manages and controls the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, when monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting the monitoring data to the central control device, the processor 42 is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
monitoring the state of an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operating state of the object in the operating state to a central control device, so that the central control device can identify a target object with an abnormal operating state and perform exception processing on the target object;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the operating state to a central control device, so that the central control device can control the object in the operating state to stop, restart or delete after stopping;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored traffic attack event to a central control device so that the central control device can block the traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is reported to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the network security vulnerability problem;
and monitoring the resource usage amount in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource usage amount information to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
Optionally, if an edge management and control device is respectively deployed in each edge cloud node, the processor 42 is specifically configured to: and autonomously managing and controlling the edge cloud nodes to which the edge management and control equipment belongs.
Optionally, the "management and control" in this embodiment may be management and control of an operation and maintenance dimension, and then, the processor 42 may be specifically configured to: the operation and maintenance management and control are autonomously carried out on at least one edge cloud node; or monitoring at least one edge cloud node from at least one operation and maintenance dimension or a specified operation and maintenance dimension under the control of the central management and control equipment. For details on autonomously performing operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node, or monitoring at least one edge cloud node from at least one operation and maintenance dimension or a specified operation and maintenance dimension under the control of the central control device, reference may be made to the foregoing description, and details are not described herein again.
Further, as shown in fig. 4, the edge regulating apparatus further includes: a display 44, a power supply component 45, and an audio component 46. Only some of the components are shown schematically in fig. 4, and it is not meant that the edge management apparatus includes only the components shown in fig. 4. In addition, the components within the dashed box in fig. 4 are optional components, and may be determined according to the implementation form of the edge management control device. If the edge management device is a server-style device, optionally, the display 44 and audio component 46 may not be included; if the edge management device is in the form of a terminal device, a display 44 and an audio component 46 may optionally be included.
Accordingly, the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, where the computer program, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps or operations that may be performed by the edge management apparatus in the foregoing method embodiments.
The memories of fig. 3 and 4 may be implemented by any type of volatile or non-volatile memory device or combination thereof, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disk.
The communication components of fig. 3 and 4 described above are configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the device in which the communication component is located and other devices. The device in which the communication component is located may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component may further include a Near Field Communication (NFC) module, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and the like.
The displays in fig. 3 and 4 described above include screens, which may include Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) and Touch Panels (TPs). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation.
The power supply components of fig. 3 and 4 described above provide power to the various components of the device in which the power supply components are located. The power components may include a power management system, one or more power supplies, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for the device in which the power component is located.
The audio components of fig. 3 and 4 described above may be configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive an external audio signal when the device in which the audio component is located is in an operational mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may further be stored in a memory or transmitted via a communication component. In some embodiments, the audio assembly further comprises a speaker for outputting audio signals.
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
In a typical configuration, a computing device includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory. The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.
Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.
It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
The above description is only an example of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

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1. A network system, comprising: the system comprises a central control device, an edge control device and at least one edge cloud node;
the central control device is configured to receive monitoring data, which is reported by the edge control device and is for the at least one edge cloud node, and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data;
the edge management and control equipment is used for monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the center management and control equipment; and under the condition that the central management and control equipment does not or cannot manage and control the at least one edge cloud node, autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node.
2. The network system according to claim 1, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to:
under the condition that connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, the at least one edge cloud node is autonomously managed and controlled from at least one monitoring dimension;
or
Under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received, the at least one edge cloud node is autonomously controlled from at least one monitoring dimension
Or
And if the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received in the designated monitoring dimension, autonomously controlling the at least one edge cloud node from the designated monitoring dimension.
3. The network system of claim 2, wherein the edge management appliance is further configured to:
after the connection with the central control equipment is recovered, the control data in the connection loss period are synchronized to the central control equipment.
4. The network system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations when autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node:
performing state monitoring on the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored target object with the abnormal running state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operating state to stop, restart, migrate or delete after stopping according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, performing data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out blocking processing on the monitored traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on the at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is repaired;
and monitoring the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing resource expansion or reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to a monitoring result.
5. The network system according to claim 4, wherein the edge management and control device, when performing exception handling for the target object, is specifically configured to:
analyzing the abnormal operation state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to the analysis result;
and acquiring a target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception handling on the target object according to the target processing mode.
6. The network system according to claim 5, wherein the edge management and control device, when acquiring the target processing manner, is specifically configured to:
under the condition of keeping connection with the central control equipment, reporting the at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can select a processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as the target processing mode; or
Under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, outputting the at least one candidate processing mode to an edge management and control personnel for the management and control personnel to select a processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management and control personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as the target processing mode; or
And under the condition of losing connection with the central management and control equipment, selecting the target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
7. The network system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations when monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the center management and control device:
performing state monitoring on an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operating state of the object in the operating state to the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can identify a target object with an abnormal operating state and perform exception processing on the target object;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the operating state to the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment controls the object in the operating state to stop, restart after stopping or delete;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored traffic attack event to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can block the traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on the at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is reported to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the security vulnerability problem;
and monitoring the resource usage amount in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource usage amount information to the central control device, so that the central control device can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
8. The network system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each edge cloud node is respectively deployed with an edge management and control device;
wherein, the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node is specifically configured to: monitoring the edge cloud nodes to which the edge cloud nodes belong and reporting monitoring data to the central control equipment; and under the condition that the central management and control equipment does not manage or cannot manage the edge cloud node, autonomously managing and controlling the edge cloud node.
9. A method of managing, comprising:
determining that a central management and control device in a network system does not or cannot manage and control at least one edge cloud node in the network system;
and autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein determining that a central management device in a network system does not manage or cannot manage at least one edge cloud node in the network system comprises at least one of:
determining that the central management and control equipment cannot manage and control the at least one edge cloud node under the condition that the central management and control equipment is disconnected;
determining that the central control equipment does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received;
and under the condition that a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the center management and control equipment is not received in a specified monitoring dimension, determining that the center management and control equipment does not or cannot manage and control the at least one edge cloud node in the specified monitoring dimension.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:
after the connection with the central control equipment is recovered, the control data in the connection loss period are synchronized to the central control equipment.
12. The method according to any one of claims 9-11, wherein autonomously governing the at least one edge cloud node comprises at least one of:
performing state monitoring on the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored target object with the abnormal running state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operating state to stop, restart, migrate or delete after stopping according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, performing data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out blocking processing on the monitored traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on the at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is repaired;
and monitoring the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing resource expansion or reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to a monitoring result.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein performing exception handling for the target object with the abnormal monitored running state comprises:
analyzing the abnormal operation state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to the analysis result;
and acquiring a target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception handling on the target object according to the target processing mode.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein obtaining a target treatment modality from the at least one candidate treatment modality comprises:
under the condition of keeping connection with the central control equipment, reporting the at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can select a processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as the target processing mode; or
Under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, outputting the at least one candidate processing mode to an edge management and control personnel for the management and control personnel to select a processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management and control personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as the target processing mode; or
And under the condition of losing connection with the central management and control equipment, selecting the target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
15. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein if an edge management and control device is respectively deployed in each edge cloud node, autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node comprises:
and the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node autonomously manages and controls the edge cloud node to which the edge management and control equipment belongs.
16. A method of managing, comprising:
monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system;
and reporting the monitoring data to a central control device in the network system so that the central control device can control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system comprises:
monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment;
or
Monitoring the at least one edge cloud node on a specified monitoring dimension according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment; or
And periodically monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to the timing task.
18. The method according to claim 16, wherein monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system, and reporting monitoring data to a central control device in the network system, so that the central control device controls the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data, includes at least one of the following manners:
performing state monitoring on an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operating state of the object in the operating state to the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can identify a target object with an abnormal operating state and perform exception processing on the target object;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operating state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the operating state to the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment controls the object in the operating state to stop, restart after stopping, migrate or delete;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to data analysis results;
carrying out traffic monitoring on the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored traffic attack event to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can block the traffic attack event;
network security vulnerability scanning is carried out on the at least one edge cloud node, and the scanned network security vulnerability problem is reported to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the network security vulnerability problem;
and monitoring the resource usage amount in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource usage amount information to the central control device, so that the central control device can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
19. The method according to any one of claims 16 to 18, wherein if each edge cloud node is respectively deployed with an edge management and control device, monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system and reporting monitoring data to a central management and control device in the network system includes:
and the edge control equipment in each edge cloud node monitors the edge cloud node to which the edge cloud node belongs and reports the monitoring data in the edge cloud node to the central control equipment.
20. An edge management and control apparatus, comprising: a memory and a processor;
the memory for storing a computer program; the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to carry out the steps of the method of any one of claims 9-19.
21. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps of the method of any one of claims 9-19.
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