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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Michael Dehaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael DeHaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Adrian Likins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Seth Vidal, Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the remote configuration of networked systems using a secure modular platform. A network management engine communicates with a set of remote machines, such as a collection of clients or servers on a network. The network management engine can present a systems administrator with a set of compact network commands to permit the administrator to interrogate, configure, and manage the set of controlled machines on a dynamic basis. The network management engine can, for instance, install or update software, detect viruses on the controlled machines, perform an inventory of installed hardware on the controlled machines, and perform other network management functions using pre-configured functions and APIs built into a network library or command directory. Besides incorporating pre-configured management modules, the network management engine further allows a systems administrator to add custom modules in the command directory, using efficient modular interfaces compatible with network-level management processing.