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Managing Collections of Appliances

  • US 20090063650A1
  • Filed: 09/05/2007
  • Published: 03/05/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An appliance manager for managing appliances in a networked environment comprising:

  • a subscription component that identifies active subscribed-to appliances to be managed;

    a hierarchy component that organizes subscribed-to appliances into at least one managed set of configuration-identical devices, where each managed set has a master appliance and zero or more slave appliances;

    a storage component that stores managed data associated with said subscribed-to appliances;

    an interface component that receives events from active subscribed-to appliances, wherein said appliance manager exchanges information with a corresponding active subscribed-to appliance in response to receiving an event there from;

    anda management component that dynamically manages at least one managed set of appliances so as to synchronize subscribed-to appliances within their associated managed set if information exchanged with a select active subscribed-to appliance of said associated managed set, in response to receiving an associated event there from, identifies a configuration change occurred on said select active subscribed-to appliance.

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