SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• US 20070078841A1
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIN, CHENG-WEI
• Application Number:
  US11/309,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20070078841A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0253 using browsers or web-pages for accessing management information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A network resource management system that manages a plurality of distributed client computers through a network. The system comprises: a data collecting module (11) configured for collecting data from each client computer (6) via a domain controller (1), and for uploading the connected data to shared folders (5); an agent module (41) configured for comparing, filtering, and processing the data of the shared folders (5) via an agent server (4) and writing the data into a database (7); and a task managing module (31) configured for accessing the database (7) via a website server (3), and for searching and executing the management task on the corresponding client computers. A related method is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A network resource management system that manages a plurality of distributed client computers through a network, the system comprising:

a data collecting module configured for collecting data from each client computer via a domain controller and for uploading the collected data to shared folders;

an agent module configured for comparing, filtering, and processing the data in the shared folders via an agent server and writing resulting data into a database; and

a task managing module configured for accessing the database via a website server, and for searching and performing management tasks on the client computers.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data collected by the data collecting module comprise hardware data, software data, computer logs, patch installation data, and event data of each client computer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the task managing module is further configured for issuing the management tasks according to the search results.

4. A method for network resource management that manages a plurality of distributed client computers through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

collecting data from each client computer;

uploading the collected data to shared folders;

comparing, filtering, and processing the data of the shared folders and writing resulting data into a database;

accessing the database, and searching for management tasks;

issuing the management tasks; and

executing the management tasks on the client computers.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the data from each client computer comprises hardware data, software data, computer logs, patch installation data, and event data of the client computer.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the searching step comprises the steps of:

selecting a management task template;

querying and verifying an administrator account number and a corresponding password;

selecting an objective for a management task;

generating a task object set and an on-unit task object set;

adding the administrator account number and the corresponding password to the management task template;

encrypting the management task template;

creating a management task script;

appointing a date, time, and frequency of executing the management task script;

creating an identification number of the management task script, and writing information on the management task script into the database; and

generating a scheduling script and executing the scheduling script.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of executing the management tasks comprises the steps of:

triggering the scheduling script in response to a trigger event;

executing the management task script and reading the on-unit task object set from the database according to the serial number;

determining whether the management task script has been completed;

obtaining an object from the on-unit task object set and executing the management task script if the management task script has not been completed;

determining whether the on-unit task object set is empty if the management task script has been completed;

determining whether an execution number of the management task script has been completed if the on-unit task object set is not empty;

updating the on-unit task object set and a successful task set and returning to the triggering step if the execution number has not been completed; and

updating the on-unit task object set and the successful task set and the state of the management task if the execution number has been completed.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

updating the on-unit task object set and the successful task set and the state of the management task if the on-unit task object set is empty.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the reading step comprises the steps of:

determining whether the object has a corresponding computer log in the shared folders;

executing the management task script if the object has the corresponding computer log;

determining whether the object has been successful in executing the management task script;

deleting the object from the on-unit task object set and moving the object into the successful task set if the object has been successful in the management task script;

returning execution results of the management task script to the database; and

returning to the step of determining whether the management task script has been completed.