Emc Corporation

Terrence Lewis

Boris Farizon

Benjamin Thrift

Anoop George Ninan

Samuil Shmuylovich

Evgeny Roytman

Ethan D Roberts

Mordechai Zvi Zur

Sylvia Martin

Christopher M Barrett

Gregory MacKinnon

Nigel B Hislop

Dongjun Sun

Stephen Walsh

Paul Clark

Steven M Stramaglia

Yogesh Athawale

Wesley A Scott

An agent installer operates to install an agent on a plurality of host computer systems using a bulk automated installation process that identifies at least one agent to be installed on a plurality of host computer systems and performs prerequisite checking of each of the plurality of host computer systems to determine which host computer systems of the plurality of host computer system are capable of supporting operation of the at least one agent. For each host computer system of the plurality of host computer systems that is capable of supporting operation of the at least one agent, the agent installer performs an automated bulk agent installation operation to install the at least one agent on that host computer system.

Methods and apparatus for installing agents in a managed network

A custom host naming mechanism that allows a user to define a custom host name as a virtual name for the hosts in the managed information environment, such as the storage area network, overcomes the shortcomings of the use of a network assigned machine name during a failover operation. The custom host naming mechanism allows the operator to define a mnemonic virtual name for each host in the managed information environment, thereby facilitating failover switching. Further, such secondary hosts may undertake offline, lower priority executing tasks while not in failover mode, and rapidly reconfigure as the failover secondary host should the need arise. Therefore, secondary hosts at a hot site deploy with a mnemonically descriptive name indicative of their status as a secondary host for a corresponding primary host, and further, need not remain idle pending a disaster recovery scenario, but rather are employable for offloading of other, lower priority tasks pending failover response.

System and methods for host naming in a managed information environment

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Terrence Lewis