US 7,480,713 B2 · Method and system for network management with redundant monitoring and categorization of endpoints

Abstract

A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for management of a distributed data processing system. Resources within the distributed data processing system are dynamically discovered, and the discovered resources are adaptively monitored using the network management framework. A network or system administrator configures some mission critical endpoints with multiple network interface cards (NICs) and specifies mission critical endpoints, non-mission critical actions, etc. During status collection activities associated with network or system management activities, the categorization of an endpoint as a mission-critical or non-mission critical endpoint affects the manner in which the status collection activity is performed. Applications can request the performance of actions at endpoints without regard to the categorization of the endpoint or without regard to the categorization of the requested action, and the network management system routes the action based on whether or not the specified endpoint is a mission critical endpoint.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing a distributed data processing system, the method comprising:

configuring monitoring parameters for network interface cards within the distributed data processing system using a network management framework;
dynamically discovering endpoints within the distributed data processing system;
determining that a device within the distributed data processing system has at least a first discovered endpoint representing a first network interface card and a second discovered endpoint representing a second network interface card;
and
assigning a mission criticality categorization to each discovered endpoint.

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An apparatus for managing a distributed data processing system, the apparatus comprising:

configuring means for configuring monitoring parameters for network interface cards within the distributed data processing system using a network management framework;
discovering means for dynamically discovering endpoints within the distributed data processing system;
first determining means for determining that a device within the distributed data processing system has at least a first discovered endpoint representing a first network interface card and a second discovered endpoint representing a second network interface card;
and
assigning means for assigning a mission criticality categorization to each discovered endpoint.

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A computer program product in a computer readable medium for use in a distributed data processing system for managing the distributed data processing system, the computer program product comprising:

instructions for configuring monitoring parameters for network interface cards within the distributed data processing system using a network management framework;
instructions for dynamically discovering endpoints within the distributed data processing system;
instructions for determining that a device within the distributed data processing system has at least a first discovered endpoint representing a first network interface card and a second discovered endpoint representing a second network interface card;
and
instructions for assigning a mission criticality categorization to each discovered endpoint.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for network management with redundant monitoring and categorization of endpoints

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Method and system for network management with redundant monitoring and categorization of endpoints

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