Oracle International Corporation

Darryl Presley

Kevin R Walsh

Pascal P Sero

Dean Tan

Yuanjiang Ou

Venkat Malla

Sivakumar Thivakaram

Techniques for automatically adding a database device to a network of database devices include sending a first request from the database device in response to detecting that the database device is connected to the network. In response, the database device receives data that identifies a database device-management server. The database device sends a second request to the database device-management server. The second request identifies the database device and requests that the device-management server register the database device in response to the second request. The new database device may be a database appliance having a database process and a special purpose operating system tailored to the database process. With these techniques, a new database device can be plugged into a network and automatically discovered, registered, and assigned management tasks without human intervention. This alleviates the load on human operators and makes adding database device to a network more reliable and simple.

Techniques for automatically discovering a database device on a network

A system and method for actively managing an enterprise of configurable components is described. A configuration for at least one individual component in a managed domain is stored. The configuration includes a set of configuration parameters and type definitions. A mapping of the configurations is defined between at least two of the individual components. Each mapping specifies a configuration parameter with a relationship dependent on at least one other such configuration parameter. Each such individual component is registered. The configuration parameters and type definitions are validated based on a master set of configuration parameters and type definitions defined for an enterprise. The mappings within the enterprise are enforced by dynamically probing the validated configurable parameters for each such individual component.

System and method for actively managing an enterprise of configurable components

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Darryl Presley