Configuration data content for a clustered system having multiple instances

• US 8,312,045 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2003
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Zenz, Ingo
• Primary Examiner(s): MORRISON, JAY A
• Application Number:
  US10/750,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20050149545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,241 Days
• Field of Search: 707/101
• US Class Current: 707/790
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0889 Techniques to speed-up the configuration process
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

A property sheet system and method for managing and organizing configuration information for components contained within a clustered environment. The property sheet system includes a user interface to display contents of a property sheet data structure. The property sheet data structure includes a plurality of entries, each entry associated with a non-modifiable parameter and optionally a modifiable parameter. The user interface enables a user to modify a selected modifiable parameter associated with the property sheet data structure. Once the selected modifiable parameter has been modified, the modified parameter is stored independently with respect to the non-modifiable parameters in the property sheet data structure.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

means for displaying contents of a property sheet containing configuration information associated with a component contained within a clustered system, the property sheet having a plurality of properties, wherein each of said properties is associated with a property name, a non-modifiable default parameter and a custom parameter; and

means for receiving input to select and modify a parameter associated with a property included in the property sheet; and

means for selectively updating the parameters included in the property sheet in response to replacing a component by comparing each default parameter of the component to be replaced with a corresponding default parameter of a replacement component.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for receiving input to select between the default parameter and the custom parameter to be applied to a property included in the property sheet.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the means for displaying further comprises:

means for indicating if a configuration parameter displayed by the means for displaying is a default parameter or a custom parameter.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for automatically updating a default parameter included in the property sheet with a different default parameter associated with a corresponding property of the replaced component.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for determining if a custom parameter included in the property sheet is valid with the replaced component.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for deselecting a custom parameter in response to the custom parameter being not valid with the replaced component.

7. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions, which when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

displaying contents of a property sheet data structure representing configuration information associated with at least one component within a clustered system, the property sheet data structure including a plurality of property names, a plurality of non-modifiable default parameters and a plurality of custom parameters;

receiving input to select a custom parameter included in the property sheet data structure;

storing the modified custom parameter without changing a default parameter corresponding to the modified custom parameter; and

selectively updating the parameters included in the property sheet data structure in response to replacing of a component by comparing each default parameter of the component to be replaced with a corresponding default parameter of a replacement component.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the operations performed by the processor further comprise:

automatically updating a default parameter included in the property sheet data structure with a different default parameter associated with a corresponding property of the replaced component;

determining a custom parameter included in the property sheet data structure is valid with the replaced component; and

deselecting an applied custom parameter in response to the applied custom parameter being not valid with the replaced component.