International Business Machines Corporation

Sunil K Nagarajrao

Robert Beverley Basham

David Lynn Merbach

Sumant Padbidri

Allen Robert Heitman

Gary Thomas Axberg

Amit Kumar Jain

Stuart A Friedberg

Sunil J Unadkat

A system, method and computer program product for intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents adapted to discover information concerning the network. The discovery agents each have an associated discovery capability. Based on consideration of the agent discovery capabilities, discovery assignments are computed and network discovery is performed according to the assignments so as to reduce discovery poll overhead.

Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents

Managing access control within system topologies by using canonical access control representations is disclosed. A set of accessor-accessible pairs is determined. Each accessor has a predetermined level of access to its paired accessible within a system topology. For each unique accessible within the set of pairs, the accessors that are paired with it are sorted and merged as a first proto-zone. For each unique subset of accessor(s) within the set of first proto-zones, the accessibles that are associated with it are sorted and merged as a second proto-zone. The second proto-zones are sorted to yield a canonical set of zones. Each zone has accessor(s) and accessible(s). The canonical set of zones is used to manage the access control of the accessors and the accessibles within the topology.

Managing access control within system topologies using canonical access control representations

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Sunil K Nagarajrao