Method and system for network configuration discovery
First Claim
1. A computerized method for discovering a managed device which is part of a network, and displaying a representation of an application run on said managed device utilizing a standard manager-agent network management system, comprising:
- receiving, at said managed device from a standard manager residing on a Network Management Station with a standard agent associated with a standard database residing on said managed device, a request for reporting configuration information of said managed device to said standard manager;
forwarding said request from said standard agent to an add-on agent associated with an add-on database which resides on said managed device;
retrieving at least one parameter which is stored on said add-on a database associated with said add-on agent and which parameter is associated with said application run on said managed device;
passing from said add-on agent said parameter to said standard agent; and
sending from said managed device with said standard agent a protocol comprising said parameter to said standard manager residing on said Network Management station.
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Abstract
The invention relates to network management, particularly to configuration discovery. The inventive computerized method/system utilize a standard agent-manager network management system having an inventive add-on agent operatively coupled to a database resides on a managed device. The add-on agent is a piece of software and is configured to communicate with the standard agent, and receives a request directed to and forwarded by the standard agent, retrieves stored information from the database operatively coupled to the add-on agent, and passes the retrieved information to the standard agent. The information stored on the database operatively coupled to the add-on agent is associated with an application run on the managed device. Since this information is passed to the standard agent, the standard agent can pass this information to the standard manager. The standard manger is modified to interpret that information and display a representation of the application run on the managed device.
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23 Claims
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1. A computerized method for discovering a managed device which is part of a network, and displaying a representation of an application run on said managed device utilizing a standard manager-agent network management system, comprising:
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receiving, at said managed device from a standard manager residing on a Network Management Station with a standard agent associated with a standard database residing on said managed device, a request for reporting configuration information of said managed device to said standard manager;
forwarding said request from said standard agent to an add-on agent associated with an add-on database which resides on said managed device;
retrieving at least one parameter which is stored on said add-on a database associated with said add-on agent and which parameter is associated with said application run on said managed device;
passing from said add-on agent said parameter to said standard agent; and
sending from said managed device with said standard agent a protocol comprising said parameter to said standard manager residing on said Network Management station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A networked system comprising:
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a managing device connected to said networked system that is a Network Management Station comprising a standard manager;
a managed device connected to said networked system comprising a standard agent associated with a standard database;
an add-on agent that is a software module residing on said managed device;
an add-on database which is associated with said add-on agent that comprises a parameter associated with an application run on said managed device;
said add-on agent being configured to retrieve said parameter from said add-on database and to forward said parameter to said standard agent when said standard agent receives a request for reporting configuration information of said managed device from said standard manager. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A networked system comprising:
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a managed device connected to said networked system comprising a standard agent associated with a standard database;
an add-on agent that is a software module residing on said managed device;
a first add-on database which is operatively coupled with said add-on agent;
said system being configured to;
store on said first add-on database information of an application run on said managed device;
retrieve from said first add-on database said information with said add-on agent; and
communicate with said add-on agent with said standard agent so that said retrieved information is passed from said add-on agent to said standard agent when said standard agent receives a query to obtain configuration information about said managed device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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