Method of monitoring and administrating distributed applications using access large information checking engine (Alice)

摘要

A system, method, and machine readable medium for monitoring and administering a distributed application implementation is disclosed where an agent is associated-with an application server. The agent monitors and collects information relating to all active distributed data sessions occurring on the application server and transmits the session information to a central data repository, for example, a database. The central data repository stores data session information relating to a plurality of application servers and may contain session information relating to application servers located in a plurality of server farms. A software application is provided that is capable of receiving input from a user related to the session data in the central data repository, querying the repository and returning a subset of session data relating to the user's input. Query results are displayed to the user allowing for administration of the distributed computing environment across multiple servers and server farms.