Bladelogic, Inc.

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Biotronik Se Co. Kg

Ravi Reddy

Thomas Doerr

Dirk Muessig

Larry Stotts

R Hollis Whittington

Kurt Swenson

Vijay G Manwani

Thomas Martin Kraus

Shayan Guhaniyogi

Madeline Anne Midgett

Sekhar Muddana

Balaji Srinivasa

David Aaron Crowther

Christopher Jones

Bjoern Henrik Diem

Andy Eugene Adkins

A method and system for configuring heterogeneous servers across a network through modules that can browse, snapshot, track changes, track compliance, correct server objects on each of the servers, and provision new servers is provided. In one embodiment, server objects on multiple servers can be browsed in real time. While browsing, a collection of server object identifiers can be selected and collected in a template. The values of the server objects identified in the template can be recorded for a 'gold server' through a 'snapshot' process, which collects the values and saves them in a reference model. By comparing other live servers to the reference model, discrepancies in configuration of the other live servers can be identified and corrected. The reference models can also be used to provision a new server. Alternative to the reference model, an arbitrary snapshot or scheduled snapshots of a server can be used to track change and compliance in that server.

Method and system for model-based heterogeneous server configuration management

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Ravi Reddy