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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Nandakumar Peethambaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dar-Ren Leu, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijoy A. Pandey, San Jose, CA (US);
Dayavanti G. Kamath, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sushma Anantharam, Cupertino, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A distributed device architecture includes a master device and one or more member devices. A simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent of a master device receives an SNMP request from a managing device. Where the SNMP request pertains to a given member device, and where the SNMP request requires involvement of the given member device to fulfill the SNMP request, the master device generates a non-SNMP request corresponding to the SNMP request and transmits the non-SNMP request to the given member device. A non-SNMP agent of the given member device processes the non-SNMP request and transmits processing results back to the master device. The master device generates an SNMP response corresponding to the processing results, and the SNMP agent of the master device transmits the SNMP response back to the managing device.