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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2012
Kamal Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Anshu N. Jain, Karnataka, IN;
Suman K. Pathapati, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Nidhi Rajshree, Karnataka, IN;
Kamal Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Anshu N. Jain, Karnataka, IN;
Suman K. Pathapati, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Nidhi Rajshree, Karnataka, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for targeted maintenance of computing devices in a system. A method includes assessing a maintenance request to determine a class of computing devices to which the request applies, selecting a propagation mechanism applicable to the class of computing devices, generating an agent based on the propagation mechanism to carry out the maintenance request on the class of computing devices, deploying the agent on at least one computing device in the class of computing devices, and propagating the agent to additional devices in the class of computing devices.