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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
May. 05, 1998
Kent Fillmore Hayes, Jr, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system with a network interconnecting a server and a plurality of user stations. The system provides a means whereby vendors of existing hardware and software can integrate the hardware or software into the environment of a centrally managed network computing system, without having to retrofit the hardware with new firmware or without having to redesign the existing software. An export service allows a system administrator to generate configuration files in the format that the existing hardware or software expects and to store the files at the server in a way that the existing hardware or software can access the files in the manner for which it is designed.