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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Paul Joseph Reder, Durham, NC (US);
Mark Clarence Zelek, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for processing an event notification generated by a proxy managed object in a management system, where the management system includes at least one manager and at least one agent. The agent includes a proxy agent coordinator, at least one proxy agent containing one or more event forwarding discriminators, and at least one proxy managed object. The method includes the steps of providing a proxy agent identifier in the notification generated by the proxy managed object, comparing the proxy agent identifier in the notification to an identifier stored in the event forwarding discriminator, and processing the notification if the identifier in the notification matches the identifier stored in the event forwarding discriminator. A set of event forwarding discriminators on one proxy agent can be distinguished from other sets of event forwarding discriminators on other proxy agents via a unique proxy agent identifier for each proxy agent which is stored in the proxy managed object and the event forwarding discriminators, and the unique proxy agent identifier is forwarded in any notification from the proxy managed object to all of the event forwarding discriminators in the system. This method and system is transparent to the manager.