System and interfaces for entity management
AssigneeIpswitch, Inc.
InventorsAustin O'Malley, Vajrang Suresh Parvate, Swetha Desetty, Linda Upham Ellis
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Abstract
A management interface is provided that allows for more capability to view and create indications of such complex relationships between entities. For instance, it would be helpful to have an ability to view physical, virtual, and/or wireless connectivity within a common interface. Further, tools may be provided to permit the user to more easily navigate a representation of the network and its entities, and to perform management control actions, monitoring, and other functions.
Claims25
An entity management system comprising:
- a discovery engine configured to discover a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- a mapping component adapted to represent the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- at least one user interface control that when selected, causes the interface to display at a group of connections in at least one of the least one of the plurality of dimensions.
A non-volatile computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for execution on a computer system, the instructions when executed, provide an entity management system comprising:
- a discovery engine configured to discover a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- a mapping component adapted to represent the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- at least one user interface control that when selected, causes the interface to display at a group of connections in at least one of the least one of the plurality of dimensions.
A method comprising:
- discovering, via a management system, a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- representing, within a display of the management system, the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- representing, within a display of the management system, a group of connections in at least one of the least one of the plurality of dimensions.
An entity management system comprising:
- a discovery engine configured to discover a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- a mapping component adapted to represent the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- at least one user interface control that when selected, causes the interface to perform a zooming operation within the graphical map, wherein the zoom operation operates to select a zoom level with corresponding detail relating to the plurality of discovered computing entities.
An entity management system comprising:
- a discovery engine configured to discover a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- a mapping component adapted to represent the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- at least one user interface control that when selected, causes the interface to create a dependency between at least two entities, wherein one of at least one of the two entities is indicated to have a dependent relationship with the other of the at least two entities, and wherein the dependency relationship is indicated as a connection within the display.
An entity management system comprising:
- a discovery engine configured to discover a plurality of computing entities coupled by one or more communication networks;
- a mapping component adapted to represent the plurality of discovered computing entities and associated connections in a plurality of dimensions in a graphical map;
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- at least one user interface control that when selected, causes the management system to perform a management action on the selected subset of the plurality of discovered computing entities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.