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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2003
Maximilian J. Spring, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for creating and storing information that defines one or more network devices for use with a network management system. In one aspect, a network device having one or more logical slots, each of which may contain one of a plurality of sub-components, may be defined in terms of a logical expression that is evaluated by the network management system at runtime. A containment tree representing physical hardware and software elements of the network device is created and stored in memory. The logical expression is evaluated, based in part on a value that is obtained in real time from the network device using a dynamic discovery operation. A node representing the actual sub-component present in the slot of the device at runtime is created and stored in the tree based on the result of evaluating the expression.