System and method for dynamic discovery of web services for a management console

• US 9,906,604 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2015
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Chitrak, Seal, Abhirup, Khemani, Lucky Pratap, Venkatachalam, Hari, Basavarajaiah, Sushma
• Primary Examiner(s): Jami, Hares
• Application Number:
  US14/642,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20160269492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 707705, 707736, 707803, 709217, 709227, 709230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/211 Schema design and management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A system and method for dynamic discovery of web services for a management console is disclosed. The method includes detecting, at a discovery module of a service processor, a profile request from a console application. The method further includes requesting class information for the detected profile request from a provider register, and generating a profile-based web services description language (WSDL) file. The method also includes communicating the profile-based WSDL file to the console application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting, at a discovery module of a service processor, a profile request from a console application;

requesting class information for one or more classes corresponding to the detected profile request from a provider register;

generating a profile-based web services description language (WSDL) file including the requested class information and usable by the console application to generate a management instruction;

communicating the profile-based WSDL file to the console application; and

receiving and implementing the management instruction generated by the console application using the profile-based WSDL file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting class information comprises querying a common information model (CIM)-Schema.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein requesting class information further comprises transmitting a GET_CLASS request to a provider register.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile request comprises a request for a plurality of profiles.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein generating the profile-based WSDL file comprises generating a separate profile-based WSDL file for each of the plurality of profiles.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising aggregating the separate profile-based WSDL files into an aggregated profile-based WSDL file.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile-based WSDL file comprises information regarding a CIM profile and a CIM class corresponding to the profile request.

8. A system comprising:

a service processor configured to;

detect a profile request from a console application;

request class information for one or more classes corresponding to the detected profile request from a provider register;

generate a profile-based web services description language (WSDL) file including the requested class information and usable by the console application to generate a management instruction;

communicate the profile-based WSDL file to the console application; and

receive and implement the management instruction generated by the console application using the profile-based WSDL file.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein requesting class information comprises querying a common information model (CIM)-Schema.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein requesting class information further comprises transmitting a GET_CLASS request to a provider register.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the profile request comprises a request for a plurality of profiles.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein generating the profile-based WSDL file comprises generating a separate profile-based WSDL file for each of the plurality of profiles.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to aggregate the separate profile-based WSDL files into an aggregated profile-based WSDL file.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the profile-based WSDL file comprises information regarding a CIM profile and a CIM class corresponding to the profile request.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

detect a profile request from a console application;

request class information for one or more classes corresponding to the detected profile request from a provider register;

generate a profile-based web services description language (WSDL) file including the requested class information and usable by the console application to generate a management instruction;

communicate the profile-based WSDL file to the console application; and

receive and implement the management instruction generated by the console application using the profile-based WSDL file.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein requesting class information comprises querying a common information model (CIM)-Schema.

17. The medium of claim 16, wherein requesting class information further comprises transmitting a GET_CLASS request to a provider register.

18. The medium of claim 15, wherein the profile request comprises a request for a plurality of profiles.

19. The medium of claim 18, wherein generating the profile-based WSDL file comprises generating a separate profile-based WSDL file for each of the plurality of profiles.

20. The medium of claim 19, wherein the processor is further caused to aggregate the separate profile-based WSDL files into an aggregated profile-based WSDL file.