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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Michael Wilfrid Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Keith Howe, Round Rock, TX (US);
Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, TX (US);
Manuel Silveyra, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Wilfrid Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Keith Howe, Round Rock, TX (US);
Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, TX (US);
Manuel Silveyra, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method to uniquely identify identically configured branches in a distributed enterprise such that branch specific configuration information may be used to configure computing devices in the identified branch are provided. With the system and method, upon being deployed in a branch location, the computing device sends a communication to a centralized configuration server using an address provided in default initial configuration information. The communication is sent from the computing device to a branch router which adds its address to the communication. The branch router address is then used by the centralized configuration server to identify the branch and thus, configuration information for computing devices of the branch. The configuration information may then be provided to the computing device for configuration of the computing device for branch-specific operation.