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AssigneeCitrix Systems, Inc.
InventorsThomas D. Freeman, Bradley Jay Pedersen, Daniel Nicholes Woodbury, Anthony Ungerman
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Methods and apparatus for administering a remote server having a subsystem in communication with an event bus. In one aspect of the present invention, an administration tool for administering a server has a subsystem in communication with an event bus. The administration tool includes a graphical user interface communications channel and a graphical user interface module corresponding to the server subsystem, wherein the graphical user interface module is in communication with the channel. The administration tool also includes a transport module in communication with the channel and the graphical user interface module. The graphical user interface module transmits an administration command to the corresponding server subsystem by sending the command to the transport module via the communications channel.
An administration tool for administering a server, the server having at least one subsystem in communication with an event bus, the administration tool comprising:
A method for administering a server, the server having a subsystem in communication with an event bus, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
To service a request: the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
Computing and data processing
Term ended 8 May 2020 (estimated)
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The invention relates to server systems for use in a network of computers and particularly to administering a server having a subsystem in communication with an event bus.
Client/server systems, in which the server executes one or more applications for a client, are similar to traditional multi-user systems such as UNIX. Graphically, these systems behave similarly to X-WINDOWS, a user interface standard for UNIX systems. A client/server system, such as the commercially available WINFRAME system manufactured by Citrix Systems, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., may include a number of application servers. Each application server may support multi-tasking of several applications that may be requested by a user at a remotely located workstation.
In order to minimize response time, maximize system throughput, and generally give the appearance that the user's application program is executing at the client, an administrator will often provide a user with access to a number of application servers that host the desired applications and are capable of servicing the user's requests. However, in order for such a system to operate efficiently, the application servers must dynamically coordinate access to system resources shared among the application servers as well as coordinate access to the application servers by the user. One way in which this is done is selecting one server from the group to act as the “master server.” The master server is responsible for keeping track of resource usage both by users and application servers. However, as the number of applications servers grows larger, the administrative burden becomes significant, effectively limiting the size of these networks.
The invention is pointed out with particularity in the appended claims. The advantages of the invention described above, as well as further advantages of the invention, may be better understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an enterprise system architecture comprising multiple server farms;
FIG. 2A is a block diagram of an embodiment of a server farm using the invention;
The index below should help the reader follow the discussion of the invention:
1.0 System Overview
2.0 Server Farm Overview