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Ingo R A G Bringemeier

David C James

Michael Joseph Healy

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan

Nirupama Chandrasekaran

Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan

John Leo Ellis

Khuzaima Iqbal

A client in a plurality of clients with a same network address or similar common identifier is designated a Peer Distribution Point (PDP) agent for distributing a software application divided into several packages to the plurality of clients. The plurality of clients are part of a client-server hierarchical system comprising a Central SMS site server and several Distributing servers. The Central SMS site server generates policies for the packages that are pushed to a Distribution server assigned to the plurality of clients from where the PDP agent pulls the policies. The Central SMS site server generates the packages that are pushed to the Distributing server after the PDP agent pulls the policies. The packages are pulled by the PDP agent from the Distributing server. The other clients pull the packages from the PDP agent as and when needed.

Peer distribution point feature for system management server

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Ingo R A G Bringemeier