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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2008
James F. Riordan, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ruediger Rissmann, Adliswil, CH;
Diego M. Zamboni, Adliswil, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for managing an IP network interconnecting a plurality of network hosts (). Status information, indicative of status of a host, is automatically acquired from each host (). The status information, such as MAC address, security and/or operational information, acquired from a host () is automatically recorded in at least one DNS record, associated with the IP address of that host (), of a DNS server (). The host status information in the DNS records can then be accessed for network management operations. The automatic acquisition and recording of the status information may be performed by a DHCP server () of the network on allocation of dynamic IP addresses to hosts ().