Remote system management and operation services in a computer network
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1. A method for managing a computer network comprising at least a first computer and a second computer, the method comprising:
- determining a status of a first computer at the second computer to determine whether to provide a new disk image to the first computer;
providing, to the first computer, an instruction to load the new disk image from the network onto the first computer;
determining at the second computer, if a response to the instruction to load the new disk image is received at the first computer; and
serving the new disk image to the first computer, if the response to the instruction to load the new disk image is received at the second computer.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for management of a computer network is disclosed, that provides automated disaster recovery, rollout, and reconfigurable cluster and distributed computing operation for the computers and servers in a computer network. Further, a network adapter that allows for remote management for all types of systems is provided.
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1. A method for managing a computer network comprising at least a first computer and a second computer, the method comprising:
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determining a status of a first computer at the second computer to determine whether to provide a new disk image to the first computer;
providing, to the first computer, an instruction to load the new disk image from the network onto the first computer;
determining at the second computer, if a response to the instruction to load the new disk image is received at the first computer; and
serving the new disk image to the first computer, if the response to the instruction to load the new disk image is received at the second computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for managing a computer network comprising at least one server comprising at least one fixed drive that provide services, and a plurality of clients comprising at least one fixed drive that utilize the services provided by the at least one server, comprising:
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a management program that determines when each of a plurality of management clients comprising at least some systems of the at least one server and of the plurality of clients is to load a new disk image according to a status of each of the management clients and that generates an instruction to load the new disk image to the at least one management client;
a data storage capable of storing the status of each of the plurality of management clients, so that the management program can read and write the status of each of the plurality of management clients to the data storage; and
an interface program that allows administrative access to the data storage and management program. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for managing operation and resources of a computer network that comprises a plurality of computers, the method comprising
determining a status of each of a group of computers of the plurality of computers that are part of the computer network; -
assigning each of the group of computers a disk image that is a part of a group of disk images;
instructing each of the group of computers to load a new disk image that corresponds the disk image assigned that is part of the group of disk images;
waiting for a response to the instruction from each of the group of computers to load the new disk image that it was assigned; and
serving the new disk image that it was assigned to each of the computers that responded to the instruction load the new disk image. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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