Registration agent system, network system and program therefor
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsMasataka Nagura, Hiroshi Kitamura
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Abstract
A registration agent system that registers information that must be registered to enable a node newly added to a network to commence communication. This registration agent system performs registration without a newly added node or a node manager of a newly added node having to know the location of a node managing structural information of the network or procedures for registration. Further, this registration agent system controls what information is registered and what information is not registered.
Claims13
A registration agent system which is provided in a network comprising nodes and at least one database for storing the correspondence of the IP address and the host name of each node, wherein said registration agent system comprises:
- a registration request reception means including a host name and IP address from a node newly added to said network,
- a searching means that instead of that node, searches said database using the host name included in the registration request received, and
- a registration means that instead of that node, registers that host name and the IP address of the node concerned in said database if the result of the searching by said searching means is that that host name is not registered.
A computer program which can be installed in a computer system to realize functions for:
- receiving a registration request including a host name and IP address from a node newly added to the network in which that information processing system is installed,
- searching, instead of that node searching, at least one database installed in said network for storing the correspondence of host name and IP address for each individual node for the host name included in the registration request received, and
- registering that host name and relevant IP address in said database if the result of that searching is that the host name is not registered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.