Method and apparatus for determining trap/event information via intelligent device trap/event registration and processing
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsVijay Kumar, Lawrence W. Meyer
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed comprising a trap/event registration mechanism wherein a management system in a device network registers each trap/event type on a separate unique listener port. Each unique port number has intelligent binding of the kind of trap/event that can be received thereat. Each trap/event type is tightly bound to the special unique listener port so that the management system will know by virtue of receiving the trap/event at the unique port what kind of trap/event occurred on the device.
Claims9
A method for communicating trap/event signals from a device/agent/printer to a network management system including:
- registering a plurality of management system listener ports to particular trap/event types, respectively, wherein a unique one of the listener ports is bound to the trap/event type;
- upon occurrence of a bound trap/event type at the device/agent/printer, communicating a signal representative of the trap/event type to a corresponding bound management system listener port by the device/agent/printer;
- and,
- identifying the communicated signal as indicative of the trap/event type occurring at the device/agent/printer by the receipt of the signal at the bound management system listener port.
A data processing system for communicating data between an agent device including a trap/event generator and a manager including a trap listener, wherein the manager has a plurality of trap/vent listener ports bound with a particular trap/event type, respectively,
- wherein upon generation of a trap/event signal by an agent/device, the trap/event signal is communicated to the one trap/event listener port corresponding to a type of the trap/event signal, and upon receipt of the trap/event signal by the manager at the one trap/event listener port, the manager identifies the trap/event type of the trap/event occurring at the device/agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.