International Business Machines Corporation

Brian Joseph Schlosser

Alberto Giammaria

James Russell Boykin

Antonio Perrone

Bernardo Pastorelli

Tomasz Andrzej Stopa

Paolo Salerno

Rossella De Gaetano

A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in a persistent store. Discovery directives are used to coordinate the execution of information providers.

Discovery directives

A method and system for employing Common Information Model (CIM) resources within a data processing system. A request is received for an operation with respect to CIM resources, and a determination is made as to whether the request can be fulfilled locally or remotely. In response to a determination to fulfill the request locally, the request is delegated to local CIM object manager (CIMOM) functionality to obtain result data, e.g., from a local repository or from a locally managed provider. In response to a determination to fulfill the request remotely, the request is delegated to the one or more remote CIMOMs, and the result data is aggregated from a plurality of remote CIMOMs. The result data is then returned to the originator of the request.

Method and system for unified support of multiple system management information models in a multiple host environment

A method for determining a software configuration in a computer system having a plurality of devices which can communicate with a central server and a one or more shared file systems, the method including the acts of determining, by each of the plurality of devices, which of the one or more shared file systems the corresponding device is mounted to; designating for each of the one or more shared file systems a device which is mounted thereto to perform a scanning operation on the corresponding shared file system, the device being selected from the plurality of devices; scanning, by each designated device, the one or more shared file systems that the corresponding device has been designated to scan so as to identify software products on the corresponding shared file systems that correspond with the catalog information; and receiving, from each designated device, results of the scanning for further processing.

Configuration management system and method thereof

A set of plug-in class loaders is provided in the class loader hierarchy. A plug-in class loader is provided for each class loader in the plug-in application's class loader hierarchy. Each plug-in class loader is associated with a single application class loader and is configured such that it delegates to its associated application class loader. All plug-in class loaders are also configured with a class path such that they may load plug-in classes from a directory that is specified within a configuration file. The loading of all plug-in classes is initiated by the application using the plug-in class loaders.

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