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AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsSujit Panikatt, Emmanuelle Pedron
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The client portion of a distributed client-server network management system uses an interface designed with, and written in, a platform independent language, such as Java. This allows management application programs to be written in the platform independent language and insures their portability. Further, in accordance with another aspect of the invention, the inventive interface allows a user to query an alarm log while the alarm log record information is cached at the server so that only a small client program is necessary. This program can run on a system with minimal resources, thereby allowing a network manager to manage a network from virtually any location on the network. For example, the client management application could be written as a Java applet which could then be run on any Java-enabled browser. In accordance with still another aspect of the invention, an alarm log can be queried on any user-defined attribute based on relational criteria such as: “greater than”, “less than”, “equal”, “not equal”, etc.
An alarm services system for use in a distributed network management system having a management application program that is used by managers to control the system, a management information server and an alarm logging system which receives alarms and stores alarm records representing the alarms in a database, the alarm services system comprising:
A method for use in a distributed network management system having a management application program that is used by managers to control the system, a management information server and an alarm logging system which receives alarms and stores alarm records representing the alarms in a database, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer program product for use in a distributed network management system having a management application program that is used by managers to control the system, a management information server and an alarm logging system which receives alarms and stores alarm records representing the alarms in a database, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon including:
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