Configuration management in a distributed platform
First Claim
1. A method for updating a directory service in a system comprising several clients and at least one directory service containing information containing information that the clients use, characterized in that the method contains the steps of registering the clients which are interested in updates concerning the at least a portion of the information in the directory service, updating a directory at a client to update the directory service, sending the update information to the registered clients from the client updating the directories of registered clients using the update information.
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Abstract
The invention relates to configuration management and updating a directory service in a distributed platform. The known LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is used for managing the configuration directories of processes and CNS (Corba Notification Service) for handling the notifications of changes in the configuration directories. The configuration directories are situated in a directory service, which is a physically distributed, logically centralized repository (containing databases). Processes, monitoring elements and management elements, etc. use the directory service to get configuration information for their use. When there are changes in the configuration directory of a node, a notification message concerning the change is sent to CNS. CNS distributes the notification message to the processes that are interested in knowing the change.
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1. A method for updating a directory service in a system comprising several clients and at least one directory service containing information containing information that the clients use, characterized in that the method contains the steps of
registering the clients which are interested in updates concerning the at least a portion of the information in the directory service, updating a directory at a client to update the directory service, sending the update information to the registered clients from the client updating the directories of registered clients using the update information.
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15. An arrangement for updating a directory service in a system comprising several clients and at least one directory service containing information that clients use, characterized in that the arrangement includes
first means for registering the clients which are interested in updates concerning at least a portion of the information in the directory service, second means for updating a directory at a client to update the directory service, third means for sending the update information from the clients to the registered clients to update the directories of the registered clients.
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