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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2003
Sunil K. Nagarajrao, Portland, OR (US);
David L. Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Basham, Aloha, OR (US);
Allen R. Heitman, Rochester, MN (US);
Sumant Padbidri, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary T. Axberg, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Sunil K. Nagarajrao, Portland, OR (US);
David L. Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Basham, Aloha, OR (US);
Allen R. Heitman, Rochester, MN (US);
Sumant Padbidri, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary T. Axberg, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents adapted to discover information concerning the network. The discovery agents each have an associated discovery capability. Based on consideration of the agent discovery capabilities, discovery assignments are computed and network discovery is performed according to the assignments so as to reduce discovery poll overhead.