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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1997
David M. Lakis, Orem, UT (US);
William A. Cluff, Orem, UT (US);
Mark D. Webster, Provo, UT (US);
Jay R. Cummings, Provo, UT (US);
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
Processes and apparatuses are provided for managing one of a plurality of network manageable devices, each one of the plurality of network manageable devices having a unit of first management information associated therewith. A request is issued to a first computer from a second computer to access the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices. A first data structure is created for storing a unit of first device information for each one of the plurality of network manageable devices with each unit of first device information identifying its respective network manageable device. The first data structure is searched for a unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices and the unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices is used to locate the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices.