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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Preeti N. Bhoj, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);
Sailesh Chutani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A service management system in a federated system having a first and a second independently administered data service systems is described. The service management system includes a service manager that provides selective management data of the second data service system to the first data service system in accordance with a predetermined service level agreement between the first and second data service systems without giving the first data service system complete access to the second data service system. A method of selectively providing management data from one independently administered data service system to another independently administered data service system is also described.