Intelligent Discovery Of Network Information From Multiple Information Gathering Agents
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents adapted to discover information concerning the network. The discovery agents each have an associated discovery capability. Based on consideration of the agent discovery capabilities, discovery assignments are computed and network discovery is performed according to the assignments so as to reduce discovery poll overhead.
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21. A network manager system for managing a data storage network, comprising:
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one or more processors; memory operatively coupled to said one or more processors; program instructions in said memory for programming said one or more processors to perform network manager operations, said operations comprising; performing a discovery agent capability determination that determines discovery capabilities of two or more discovery agents in said data storage network; computing agent discovery assignments prior to discovery execution based on said discovery agent capability determination; detecting whether a discovery capability overlap condition exists wherein said discovery capabilities are overlapping due to some of said agents being capable of discovering the same information from the same network device; and collectively, said agent discovery assignments being computed as a subset of said agent discovery capabilities in response to said discovery capability overlap condition being detected to reduce overlapping discovery. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A machine-implemented method for managing a data storage network, comprising:
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performing a discovery agent capability determination that determines discovery capabilities of two or more discovery agents in said data storage network; computing agent discovery assignments prior to discovery execution based on said discovery agent capability determination; detecting whether a discovery capability overlap condition exists wherein said discovery capabilities are overlapping due to some of said agents being capable of discovering the same information from the same network device; and collectively, said agent discovery assignments being computed as a subset of said agent discovery capabilities in response to said discovery capability overlap condition being detected to reduce overlapping discovery. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A computer program product, comprising:
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one or more computer-readable storage media; software code stored on said one or more storage media for programming a data processing system perform network management operations for discovering information about a network, said operations comprising; performing a discovery agent capability determination that determines discovery capabilities of two or more discovery agents in said data storage network; computing agent discovery assignments prior to discovery execution based on said discovery agent capability determination; detecting whether a discovery capability overlap condition exists wherein said discovery capabilities are overlapping due to some of said agents being capable of discovering the same information from the same network device; and collectively, said agent discovery assignments being computed as a subset of said agent discovery capabilities in response to said discovery capability overlap condition being detected to reduce overlapping discovery. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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