DEFINING CONFIGURABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PRODUCT AND ASSOCIATING CONFIGURATION WITH ENTERPRISE RESOURCES

• US 20140189681A1
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Bryan, Jeffrey J., Kavantzas, Nickolas
• Granted Patent: US 9,632,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/176
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

A computer-controlled method of managing third party installations within an enterprise can include inventorying the third party installations, specifying a number of configuration parameters for each third party installation, and storing the configuration parameters for the third party installations in a WSM metadata repository.

Claims

1. A computer-controlled method of managing at least one third party installation within an enterprise, the method comprising:

inventorying the at least one third party installation within the enterprise;

specifying a plurality of configuration parameters for the at least one third party installation; and

storing the plurality of configuration parameters for each of the at least one third party installation in a WSM metadata repository.

2. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of configuration parameters includes cache refresh rates.

3. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of configuration parameters includes nonce timeout.

4. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of configuration parameters includes clock skew.

5. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of configuration parameters includes policy manager (PM) connection information.

6. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the inventorying comprises whether the at least one third party installation is configured to support a third party agent.

7. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, wherein the inventorying comprises tracking at least one statistic about the at least one third party installation.

8. The computer-controlled method of claim 7, wherein the at least one statistic includes version information.

9. The computer-controlled method of claim 7, wherein the at least one statistic includes hosting platform information.

10. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, further comprising detecting a change to at least one of the plurality of configuration parameters.

11. The computer-controlled method of claim 1, further comprising an agent instance retrieving its plurality of configuration parameters from the WSM metadata repository.

12. The computer-controlled method of claim 11, further comprising the agent instance updating its active configuration responsive to a change to the plurality of configuration parameters.

13. The computer-controlled method of claim 12, wherein the change to the plurality of configuration parameters includes the addition of a new configuration parameter.

14. The computer-controlled method of claim 12, wherein the change to the plurality of configuration parameters includes the modification of a configuration parameter.

15. The computer-controlled method of claim 12, wherein the change to the plurality of configuration parameters includes the removal of a configuration parameter.

16. The computer-controlled method of claim 12, further comprising the agent instance persisting the updated configuration locally for the next time it initializes.