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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1997
Satoru Tezuka, Yokohama, JP;
Shigeru Miyake, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Kawaguchi, Chigasaki, JP;
Satoshi Miyazaki, Yamato, JP;
Kenji Kawakita, Urawa, JP;
Takashi Kagei, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Mineo, Sagamihara, JP;
Keizo Mizuguchi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system is provided for building, operating, and managing a virtual network which integrates the configuration, the operation, and the management of plural information devices connected to a network. The system includes agents for operating, and managing information devices in the respective devices, a physical manager for building, operating, and managing the information devices, and a logical manager for logically building, operating, and managing the information devices. The agent operates to control the settings and the change of the information device in which the agent is mounted and communicates the information with the physical manager. The physical manager operates to manage the agent of each information device and communicates the information with a user and the logical manager. The logical manager operates to build, operate, and manage the directory services, the users, and so forth and, when these directories and user are newly set or changed, to communicate the information about the new settings and the change with the physical manager.