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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Steven J. Menzies, Issaquah, WA (US);
Syed N. Ahmed, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth M. Osborne, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rajeev Byrisetty, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven J. Menzies, Issaquah, WA (US);
Syed N. Ahmed, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth M. Osborne, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rajeev Byrisetty, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to provide management information of network devices by mapping between SNMP MIB module schema and Common Information Model (CIM) schema. MIB modules are tree-structured lists of objects for describing SNMP network device information, whereas CIM schema employs user-intuitive, object-oriented classes to model such information. A mapping process enumerates the MIB objects and then maps the objects into CIM Managed Object Format (MOF) classes using defined mapping tables. A correlation mechanism is further provided to efficiently determine in real time which MIBs (or portions thereof) and corresponding CIM classes a network device supports.