Method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling in a network

A system for monitoring and controlling a network, said network comprising at least two workstations and a management console connected to each of said at least two workstations, said system comprising:

• at least one generic agent resident on said workstations for transmitting alerts indicating occurrence of an event with a program executing on the workstation;
• a monitor resident on said management console for logging alerts transmitted by any of said at least one generic agent;
• at least one procedure resident on said management console, said procedure including a plurality of stored triggers, each of said plurality of stored triggers adapted to cause a specific corrective action to be taken within said network;
• a manager coupled to said at least one generic agent for monitoring and controlling operations of said at least one generic agent, said manager further configured to send said at least one procedure to said at least one generic agent in response to an alert;
• said one of said at least two workstations configured to automatically launch said plurality of stored triggers in said at least one procedure;
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• means in said one of said at least two workstations for providing automatic discovery of a newly activated agent means on said at least two workstations and for identifying said newly activated agent means to said management console.

A system for monitoring and controlling a network, said network comprising at least two workstations and a management console connected to each of said at least two workstations, said system comprising:

• at least one generic agent resident on each of said at least two workstations configured to transmit alerts indicating occurrence of an event with a program executing on the workstation;
• monitor resident on said management console configured to log alerts transmitted by any of said at least one generic agent;
• said management console defining at least one procedure, said procedure including a plurality of stored triggers, each of said plurality of stored triggers adapted to cause a specific corrective action to be taken within said network;
• a manager coupled to said at least one generic agent and configured to monitor and to control operations of said at least one generic agent, said manager further configured to send said at least one procedure to said at least one generic agent in response to said alert;
• at least one specific agent resident in said manager handling problems during execution of a specific user program;
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• said one of said at least two workstations configured to automatically launch said plurality of stored triggers in said at least one procedure.

A method for monitoring and controlling a network, said network comprising at least two workstations and a management console connected to each of said at least two workstations, said method comprising the steps of:

• storing in said management console at least one procedure, said at least one procedure comprising a plurality of stored triggers, each of said plurality of stored triggers adapted to cause a specific corrective action to be taken within said network;
• identifying an event occurring on one of said at least two workstations;
• sending an alert to said management console which identifies said event;
• sending at least one of said procedures from said management console to at least one agent module resident on said one of said at least two workstations in response to receipt of said alert;
• providing automatic discovery of a newly activated agent module on said at least two workstations for identifying said newly activated agent module to said management console;
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• automatically launching, in said one of said at least two workstations;
• said plurality of stored triggers in said at least one procedure, each of said plurality of stored triggers causing said specific corrective action to be taken within said network.