International Business Machines Corporation

Kurt Norman Schroeder

Patrick Joseph Callaghan

Michael J Howland

Stephen Richard Nichols

Reinhard Theodor Buendgen

William J Rooney

James A O'Connor

Khary J Alexander

Utz Bacher

K Paul Muller

Craig Raymond Walters

John C Dayka

Tiberiu (Jim) Suto

Andreas Bieswanger

Thomas B Mathias

Joseph M Gdaniec

Peter G Spera

Paul E Rogers

Brian D Valentine

Stefan Usenbinz

Sean M Swehla

Friedrich Michael Welter

Harm I Osterndorf

Eric A Weinmann

Scott Anthony Sylvester

James Patrick Hennessy

Samuel L Wentz

Sammy L Rockwell

Eric W Weinmann

A method, computer program product, and/or system for facilitating communication between an origin machine and a target machine are provided. To facilitate communication, a reference to an original object of the origin machine is constructed within a remote object services level. Then reference is passed within the remote object services level from the origin machine to the target machine. The passing of the reference, in turn, causes a creation of a proxy and an invocation of a target method on the target machine.

Facilitating communication between an origin machine and a target machine

Facilitating an efficient exchange of streaming data constructs between origin and target systems while making remote procedure calls

Technical solutions are described for securely deploying a shrouded virtual server. An example method includes sending, by a host manager, authentication information of a hosting system to a client device in response to a request from the client device. The \method also includes receiving a request to deploy a virtual server using a shrouded mode. The method also includes deploying a preconfigured hypervisor on the hosting system, where the preconfigured hypervisor is deployed in an immutable mode that disables changes to security settings of the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes deploying, by the preconfigured hypervisor, a preconfigured boot image as an instance of the virtual server on the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes sending, by the host manager, an identifier of the virtual server for receipt by the client device.

End-to end protection for shrouded virtual servers

End-to-end protection for shrouded virtual servers

An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.

Unified resource manager providing a single point of control

A system, method and program product for updating first and second parameters of a recipient computer console from first and second donor computer consoles. The recipient console registers with the first donor console to receive notification when the first donor console has an update to the first parameter. The recipient console registers with the second donor console to receive notification when the second donor console has an update to the second parameter. After registering the recipient console with the first donor console, the recipient console receives the notification from the first donor console and updates the first parameter from the first donor console accordingly. After registering the recipient console with the second donor console, the recipient console receives notification from the second donor console and updates the second parameter from the second donor console accordingly. The parameters can be a help desk phone number, an identity of an authorized user or an authorization of a user.

Selective update of console parameters from other consoles

System and computer program product for updating an SSL certificate for a server. First program instructions detect when a change has been made to a name, domain or IP address of the server and detect that the server is using an SSL certificate based on a name, domain or IP address applicable before the change. In response, the first program instructions notify an administrator that a change is required to the SSL certificate to reflect the change to the name, domain or IP address. Second program instructions respond to a request by the administrator, to automatically create a new SSL certificate signing request. The new SSL certificate signing request is a form which can be sent to an SSL certificate authority. Third program instructions respond to another request by the administrator, to send the new SSL certificate signing request to the SSL certificate authority. Fourth program instructions respond to receipt of a new SSL certificate from the SSL certificate authority and another request by the administrator, to substitute the new SSL certificate for the existing SSL certificate. Fourth program instructions query the administrator if the administrator wants to use a new self-signed SSL certificate reflecting the change to the name, domain or IP address of the server, until the new SSL certificate signed by the SSL certificate authority is received from the SSL certificate authority, and if so, generate the new SSL self-signed certificate. Other program instructions respond to a request by the administrator, to create a self-signed SSL certificate and substitute the self-signed SSL certificate for the existing SSL certificate.

Computer system and program to update SSL certificates

A personal computer or workstation running a Web browser point and click interface is used to display and send information for remotely controlling a computer such as a mainframe. In the preferred embodiment, a web site or 'home-page' is constructed on a secure HTTP (hyper text transfer protocol) server which comprises a Hardware Management Console (HMC). A user logs on to the Internet World Wide Web in a conventional manner by entering the address or uniform resource locator (URL) to connect to the secure HTTP server. Upon entry of a correct password the Hardware Management Console (HMC) home-page will be displayed. Icons representing various mainframe computer components are displayed which link to additional pages which the user can click on to monitor and control the mainframe computer. The color of the icons provide a summary of the status its representative component (e.g., a green icon indicates that the representative component is functioning is normally, red indicates an abnormal condition, and blue indicates that a message is available). Further, the user can change an automatic refresh rate for the browser stored at the server for a particular user identification (userid). Any action initiated by a remote web browser is reflected on the local Hardware Management Console (HMC) drag and drop interface and vice-versa.

Method for remotely controlling computer resources via the internet with

A console operates a computer which includes a multiplicity of processors. The console displays an activate icon, a grouping icon and a multiplicity of icons which represent the multiplicity of processors, respectively. The console supports the definition of a group of the processors based on user selection of two or more of the processor icons and the grouping icon. In response to the definition, the console displays a group icon which represents the selected processors. The console also supports activation of the group of processors by selecting the group icon and the activate icon. After the group of processors is activated, the console can still display the group icon. Thus, further action can be taken on the group as a whole without redefining the group. A second group of processors containing one or more of the processors of the first group and one or more other processors can also be defined as described above. The console displays both group icons. If an attempt is made to activate the first group of processors using the corresponding group icon and the activate icon, and one of the processors which is shared by both groups fails to activate, then the console modifies the display of both group icons to indicate that at least one processor in each of the groups has failed.

Computer console with group ICON control

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Kurt Norman Schroeder