System and method for implementing polling agents in a client management tool
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSteve DeLuca, David Bishop, Paul Darcy
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for implementing a variety of polling agent functions in a client management tool. Users at a central manager are prompted to select either a central polling function or a resident polling function for the collection of client management data from a number of computer objects. Additionally, the polling agent functions of the present invention are capable of distinguishing between critical data and non-critical data and determining an appropriate transmission interval for the data.
Claims11
1-23. (canceled)
A computer system executing instructions to implement a central manager communicatively connected to a plurality of objects, the central manager comprising:
- a collection function to distinguish between critical data and non-critical data;
- a central polling agent utilizing the collection function to collect critical and non-critical data from the plurality of objects;
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- a database to integrate the critical and non-critical data collected from the plurality of objects.
A computer system executing instructions to implement a plurality of objects communicatively connected to a central manager, each of the plurality of objects comprising:
- a data provider to measure critical and non-critical data;
- a cache to store the critical and non-critical data measured by the data provider;
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- a resident polling agent to receive a collection function from the central manager specifying intervals to transmit the measured critical and non-critical data to the central manager.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.