ServiceNow, Inc.
DISTRIBUTED QUEUEING IN A REMOTE NETWORK MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

Abstract:

An embodiment may involve a computational instance disposed within a remote network management platform. The computational instance may contain queues and facilitate the execution of applications. Communication between the computational instance and a managed network may involve: (i) selecting, by a particular application, a particular output queue; (ii) writing, by the particular application, a unit of work generated by the particular application to the particular output queue; (iii) providing, by particular output queue, the unit of work to a particular proxy server application; (iv) retrieving, by a particular input queue, a result from the particular proxy server application, where the result represents an outcome of the particular proxy server application carrying out the unit of work, and where the particular input queue is associated with the particular output queue; and (v) retrieving, by the particular application, the result from the particular input queue.