Insertion of management agents during machine deployment
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorRobert M. Fries
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Abstract
An invention is disclosed for configuring a VM of a deployment to be managed by a management system. In an embodiment, a deployment manager of a deployment instructs a host to create a VM. The VM is created with a base management agent that exposes interfaces to the management system that enable the management system to install management agents on the VM. The deployment manager installs a management agent that corresponds to a management system on the VM, and registers the VM with the management system. The management system may then manage the VM by communicating with the installed management agent on the VM.
Claims1
A method for configuring a virtual machine (VM) of a first computer to be managed by a second computer, comprising:
- instructing the first computer to create the VM;
- installing a management program on the VM corresponding to the second computer;
- registering the VM with the second computer;
- and
- sending the VM an instruction indicative of management of the VM by the second computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.