STATELESS-AGENTLESS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING DATA IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140007138A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• 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, Konkimalla, Rajiv
• Granted Patent: US 8,745,197 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• 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 system comprising a memory and a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to divide a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands, provide the plurality of individual commands to a target system, receive a plurality of individual command results from the target system, and manage a state associated with the command sequence based at least in part on the plurality of individual command results, wherein the state indicates an individual command to be executed next.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

divide a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands,

provide the plurality of individual commands to a target system,

receive a plurality of individual command results from the target system, and

manage a state associated with the command sequence based at least in part on the plurality of individual command results, wherein the state indicates an individual command to be executed next.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of individual commands are related to the target system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the target system maintains no state information related to the command sequence.

4. The system of claim 1, the processing device to receive the command sequence from a management system.

5. The system of claim 4, the processing device to send a command result to the management system.

6. The system of claim 1, the target system to execute the individual command using native execution facilities.

7. The system of claim 1, the processing device to perform conditional processing on the command sequence.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the conditional processing is based at least in part on the state associated with the command sequence.

9. The system of claim 1, the processing device to update the state of the command sequence.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the state is updated based at least in part on the plurality of individual command results.

11. A method comprising:

dividing, by a processing device, a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands,

providing, by the processing device, the plurality of individual commands to a target system,

receiving, by the processing device, a plurality of individual command results from the target system, and

managing, by the processing device, a state associated with the command sequence based at least in part on the plurality of individual command results, wherein the state indicates an individual command to be executed next.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of individual commands are related to the target system.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the target system maintains no state information related to the command sequence.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving, by the processing device, the command sequence from a management system.

15. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

divide a command sequence into a plurality of individual commands, wherein the command sequence comprises a series of related commands,

provide the plurality of individual commands to the target system for execution, wherein the target system comprises no specific software for monitoring the target system,

receive a plurality of individual command results from the target system, and

manage a state of the command sequence based at least in part on the plurality of individual command results, wherein the state indicates the individual command to be executed next.

16. The system of claim 15, the processing device to perform command sequencing.

17. The system of claim 15, the processing device to perform conditional processing based at least in part on the state of the command sequence.

18. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processing device in a target system, a plurality of individual commands from a point of control;

executing, by the processing device, individual command requests of a command sequence, wherein the target system comprises no specific software for monitoring the target system, and wherein the command sequence comprises a series of related commands for execution; and

generating, by the processing device, individual command results;

and providing, by the processing device, to the point of control, a plurality of individual command results, wherein the point of control manages a state associated with the command sequence based at least in part on the individual command results, and wherein the state indicates the individual command to be executed next.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising executing, by the processing device, the individual command requests of the command sequence using native execution facilities.

20. The system of claim 18, further comprising executing, by the point of control, conditional processing on the command sequence.