18244323. CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN REMOTE COLLECTORS WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY (VMware LLC)
CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN REMOTE COLLECTORS WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY
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Inventor(s)
Venkata PADMA Kaki of West Godavari (IN)
Vinothkumar D of Villupuram District (IN)
Vineeth Totappanavar of Bangalore (IN)
Aswathy Ramabhadran of Bangalore (IN)
CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN REMOTE COLLECTORS WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18244323 titled 'CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN REMOTE COLLECTORS WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY
Original Abstract Submitted
The system includes a first endpoint and a second endpoint executing a remote collector to receive metrics from the first endpoint using a first CA certificate of the remote collector. Further, the system includes a storage device to store a second CA certificate for a collector group that shares responsibility for a monitoring function to support high availability and a management node including a certificate management module. The certificate management module may add the second endpoint to the collector group in response to receiving a request. Further, the certificate management module may retrieve the second CA certificate from the storage device and replace the first CA certificate of the remote collector with the second CA certificate of the collector group. Furthermore, the certificate management module may enable the collector group to validate a request to accept the metrics from the first endpoint based on the second CA certificate.