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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2005
Udi Kleers, Elmsford, NY (US);
Jerry Y. Goldman, New City, NY (US);
Udi Kleers, Elmsford, NY (US);
Jerry Y. Goldman, New City, NY (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for operating on a system containing a plurality of components in communication using multicast communication protocol is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components, the relationship among the components and the associated with the communication protocols, determining a mapping between a plurality of events and a plurality of observable events occurring among the components and among the communication protocols, wherein the mapping is represented as a value associating each event with each observable event, and performing the system operation in conjunction with the relationship between the events and observable events. The operations may be selected from the group of monitoring, discovering, managing, analyzing and displaying the components associated with the multicast protocols.