Stateless-agentless system and method of managing data in a computing environment

• US 20120005322A1
• Filed: 07/12/2006
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AD Persistence LLC
• Original Assignee: Spinella Ip Holdings Inc
• Inventors: Nocera, David C., Tippur, Chandrashekar, Kasukhela, Bhaskar, Suprina, Darren Richard
• Granted Patent: US 8,549,121 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0869 Validating the configuration within one network element
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0889 Techniques to speed-up the configuration process
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

A data management system and method including a point of control configured to manage one or more target systems. The point of control divides a command sequence into a number of individual commands, and provides the individual commands to the stateless-agentless target system for execution. Furthermore, the point of control maintains the state of the command sequence and monitors the target system. As such, the target system is both “stateless” (i.e., the target system maintains no state information related to the command sequence) and “agentless” (i.e., the target system includes no software for the purpose of monitoring the target system.

Claims

1. A system architecture for a computing environment comprising:

at least one stateless-agentless target system configured to execute individual command requests and generate individual command results; and

a point of control communicatively connected to the at least one stateless-agentless target system via a network, wherein the point of control is configured to;

divide a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands,

provide the individual commands to the at least one stateless-agentless target system,

receive a plurality of individual command results, and

manage a state associated with the command sequence.

2. The system architecture of claim 1, further comprising a management system configured to provide the command sequence to the point of control.

3. The system architecture of claim 2, wherein the management system is configured to receive at least one command result from the point of control.

4. The system architecture of claim 1, wherein the stateless-agentless target system executes the at least one individual command using only native execution facilities.

5. The system architecture of claim 1, wherein the point of control is configured to perform conditional processing on the command sequence.

6. The system architecture of claim 5, wherein the conditional processing is based at least in part on the state associated with the command sequence.

7. The system architecture of claim 1, wherein the point of control updates the state of the command sequence.

8. The system architecture of claim 7, wherein the state is updated based at least in part on the individual command results.

9. A data management method comprising the steps of:

dividing a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands;

providing the plurality of individual commands to at least one stateless-agentless target system for execution;

receiving a plurality of command results from the at least one stateless-agentless target system; and

managing a state of the command sequence.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of performing command sequencing.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of performing conditional processing based at least in part on the state of the command sequence.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of managing the state comprises updating the state.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the state is updated based at least in part on the individual command results.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of individual commands are executed using only execution facilities native to the stateless-agentless target system.

15. A system architecture for a computing environment comprising:

at least one stateless-agentless target system communicatively connected via a network to a point of control, wherein the at least one stateless-agentless target system executes individual command requests of a command sequence using only native execution facilities and generates individual command results, and wherein the point of control manages a state associated with the command sequence based at least in part on the individual command results.