Near real-time feed manager for data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) using custom tags for infrastructure assets

    公开(公告)号:US10567244B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-18

    申请号:US15893377

    申请日:2018-02-09

    Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

    Abstract: A messaging service is disclosed that provides access to data center event data for physical infrastructure assets via dynamically configurable custom tags defined by customers. For example, a network services exchange provider or co-location provider deploys a data center monitoring system that monitors physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within a data center for events. The system implements an API which applies custom tags defined by customers to the assets, wherein each custom tag defines attributes of the assets. The system receives subscription requests that describe events and custom tags applied to the assets. The data center infrastructure monitoring system publishes a subscription of event data related to the events for the assets to which the custom tags are applied. Further, a feed manager receives updates to asset equipment and changes to metadata describing the assets and automatically updates the subscription to account for the changes.

    Application programming interface exchange

    公开(公告)号:US11228573B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-18

    申请号:US15917203

    申请日:2018-03-09

    Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

    Abstract: An Application Programming Interface (API) exchange located within a data center is configured to receive, from a customer, a request for access to one or more APIs corresponding to respective service provider networks and to which the API exchange provides access. Based on the request for access, the API exchange bundles the one or more APIs into an API bundle, generates a unique subscription key for accessing the API bundle, and sends the unique subscription key to the customer. The API exchange receives, from the customer, a service request for invoking a requested API of the API bundle, the service request including the unique subscription key. Upon authorizing the service request to access the API bundle based on the unique subscription key, the API exchange sends the service request to the service provider network corresponding to the requested API.

    Data center agent for data center infrastructure monitoring data access and translation

    公开(公告)号:US10819556B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16161445

    申请日:2018-10-16

    Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes obtaining, by a data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) agent executing on a computing device deployed by a data center provider within a first data center of a plurality of geographically-distributed data centers, an infrastructure asset data object comprising infrastructure asset data for a physical infrastructure asset of a second data center of the plurality of geographically-distributed data centers; translating, by the DCIM agent using an asset mapping table, the infrastructure asset data object to formatted infrastructure asset data, wherein the asset mapping table maps one or more properties of infrastructure asset data objects to management protocol objects or control protocol objects for one of a management protocol or control protocol; and sending, by the DCIM agent to customer equipment co-located within the first data center, the formatted infrastructure asset data in a communication that conforms to one of the management protocol or control protocol.

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