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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2002
Victor Kouznetsov, Aloha, OR (US);
Michael Chin-hwan Pak, Portland, OR (US);
Daniel J. Melchione, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ian Shaughnessy, Portland, OR (US);
Victor Kouznetsov, Aloha, OR (US);
Michael Chin-Hwan Pak, Portland, OR (US);
Daniel J. Melchione, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ian Shaughnessy, Portland, OR (US);
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing a framework for network appliance management in a distributed computing environment is disclosed. A status report periodically received from each of a plurality of network appliances is recorded. Each status report contains health and status information and application-specific data for each network appliance. Configuration settings for each network appliance progressively assembled concurrent to providing installable components are maintained. A catalog listing currently installable components for each network appliance based on the configuration settings is dynamically provided.