Web-based network management system
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1. A system to manage devices in a network, comprising:
- a network management station including a web browser to submit Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a mark-up language file having at least one embedded object identifier (OID); and
a network device in communication with the network management station, the network device including an embedded web server to process the HTTP requests.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for using a web browser to manage network devices. In accordance to one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a web browser to submit Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a mark-up language file that contains one or more embedded SNMP object identifiers. The system further includes a network device which has an embedded web server to process the HTTP requests.
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27 Claims
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1. A system to manage devices in a network, comprising:
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a network management station including a web browser to submit Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a mark-up language file having at least one embedded object identifier (OID); and
a network device in communication with the network management station, the network device including an embedded web server to process the HTTP requests. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A network management station, comprising:
a processing unit executing a web browser to submit Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for a mark-up language file having at least one embedded object identifier (OID). - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A network device, comprising:
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a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent to access and update objects in a Management Information Base (MIB) stored on the network device; and
an embedded web server to process a mark-up language file having at least one embedded object identifier (OID), the embedded web server extracts the at least one object identifier (OID) from the HTML file and passes the at least one embedded OID to the SNMP agent. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method to manage network devices, comprising:
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embedding object identifiers in a mark-up language file containing data fields, the embedded object identifiers corresponding to data fields in the markup language file;
submitting Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for the mark-up language file;
extracting the embedded object identifiers from the mark-up language file; and
forwarding the extracted embedded object identifiers to an SNMP agent.
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24. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising:
an embedded web server to process a mark-up language file having at least one embedded object identifier (OID) corresponding to at least one data field in the mark-up language file. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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