Diagnostic Bundle Consolidation

Abstract: Failure diagnosis is finding the correct cause of failure, and gives the enough information to correct it. And it is one of the major challenges that home users and software administrators face today in the distributed software. The problem is more because there are so many different components which collaborate to realize a particular service and these components belong to different functional domains as well as physical locations. With increasing number of such services, it is important to design systems which enable easy diagnosis of problems encountered and allow determining the root cause of the failures. Diagnostic bundle consolidation mechanism provides a single point of management for creation and collection of the diagnostic bundle within the Snap Creator Framework. The log files, command outputs, etc. are scattered around the Snap Creator agent. It can consolidate diagnostic files based on various scope parameters as needed to meet effective troubleshooting requirements. This diagnostic bundle consolidation work is based on java REST architectural style, which provides light weighted communication between server and agent.

Keyword: Snap Creator Framework (SCF), Snap Creator (SC), REST, Restful.