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System and method for providing a framework for network appliance management in a distributed computing environment

  • US 7,089,259 B1
  • Filed: 01/25/2002
  • Issued: 08/08/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for providing a framework for network appliance management in a distributed computing environment, comprising:

  • an appliance status table recording a status report periodically received from a status daemon autonomously operating on each of a plurality of network appliances, each status report containing health and status information and application-specific data pertaining to autonomous configuration and management of each network appliance; and

    a catalog server maintaining configuration settings for each network appliance progressively assembled concurrent to providing installable components and dynamically providing a catalog listing currently installable components for being installed on each network appliance based on the configuration settings independently received from the network appliance;

    wherein each network appliance, prior to sending the status report, executes at least one initial plug-in; and

    , after installing the installable components, executes at least one post-plug-in;

    wherein the at least one initial plug-in monitors the status daemon to determine if the status daemon is running, and restart the status daemon if it is determined that the status daemon is not running;

    wherein the catalog further includes installable component names, installable component versions, a tag indicating a component server at which to locate and obtain each installable component, and a type indicator indicating whether each installable component is a package or a file;

    wherein a network operations center establishes a secure session with each network appliance utilizing Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS);

    wherein the appliance status table further records a user identifier associated with one of the network appliances from which the status report is received and a time the status report is received.

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