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Platform independent alarm service for manipulating managed objects in a distributed network management system

  • US 6,349,333 B1
  • Filed: 12/04/1998
  • Issued: 02/19/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An alarm services system for use in a distributed network management system having a management application program that is used by managers to control the system, a management information server and an alarm logging system which receives alarms and stores alarm records representing the alarms in a database, the alarm services system comprising:

  • a platform-independent interface in a client node, the platform-independent interface having remote objects which are accessible to the management application program and which contain method calls used by the management application program to retrieve and view alarm records;

    an alarm services server running in a server node remote from the client node and having the management information server running therein, the alarm services server having object implementations for the remote objects, a mechanism for receiving notifications from the management information server and an interface for retrieving alarm records from the database; and

    an object transport mechanism connecting the interface to the alarm services server.

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