Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Hewlett-Packard Development, L.p.

Toran Kent Kopren

Bradley A Klein

James Eugene Wade

Edgar Circenis

Bryan J Jacquot

Travis Page Longoria

Wade James Satterfield

Michael A Kingdom

Kathleen L Gannon

Ryan Ray Houdek

Travis Page Longona

A license manager running on a central-management server receives a license request for licensing a managed node as a client of a central-management product running on a central-management server. The license manager proposes a solution involving applying respective licenses for plural distinct central-management products. In response to a unified command, implementing said solution.

License management solution for central-management products

A hierarchy of computer resources is represented on a display using frames. Each frame is constituted by a top banner, a left sidebar, a right edge, and a bottom edge. The banner includes text identifying the resource it represents. The banner and the left sidebar have sufficient width to bear the text; the edges have insufficient width to bear the text.

Displaying computer resource hierarchy

A method, and a corresponding system, provide for configuring nodes in a computer system according to a user's intent. The computer system includes one or more nodes. The method includes receiving a configuration command from a user, including an identification of one or more of the nodes to be configured; determining available programs for configuring the one or more nodes; determining requirements for applying the available programs to the one or more nodes and displaying the requirements to the user for selection; receiving user selections from the displayed requirements; and executing the requirements to configure the one or more nodes.

Specification and configuration of management intent

A license manager running on a central-management server interacts with a managed node to determine a quantity of licensable units associated with a combination of a central-management program and the selected managed node.

License manager for central management products

A virtual-server license status determination is made as a function a determination of the license status of the host on which said virtual server runs.

Virtual-server license status determination

A computer determines desired software products for a managed system. The computer selects a first set of one or more available owned licenses, each license of said first set involving the least waste in terms of covering non-desired products. The computer selects a second set of one or more of licenses from said first set, each license of said second set providing most coverage in terms of covering desired software products. The computer applies a license of said second set to said managed system.

Multi-product software license selection

The present invention provides a diagnostic method for a centrally managed computer system. The method provides central diagnostic expertise regarding central management software used for managing a system. The method further provides for managed software that integrates with the central management software; the managed software includes its own diagnostic expertise. The method further provides for importing the managed diagnostic expertise and combining it with central diagnostic expertise to define collective diagnostic expertise.

Diagnostics for centrally managed computer system

A method of performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system is described and disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes identifying one or more affected hardware identifiers. Each affected hardware identifier corresponds to any of the cards. Configuration information of the computer system is gathered. Moreover, the configuration information is used to analyze the affected hardware identifiers to identify any affected resource of the computer system. The identification of any affected resource is independent of a system-wide hardware scan of the computer system. Furthermore, one of a plurality of severity levels is assigned to each identified affected resource based on predetermined criteria. The severity levels include a low severity level, a medium severity level, and a high severity level. Each severity level represents degree of impact to the computer system if functionality of the identified affected resource became unavailable.

Performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system wherein a plurality of severity levels are assigned based on a predetermined criteria

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Toran Kent Kopren