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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
L. Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jung Sauw Tjong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
L. Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jung Sauw Tjong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method provides a managed resource instrumentation application on a network device to instrument a managed network device component. The managed resource instrumentation application includes an application programming interface (API) that is common to two or more management agents that are implemented on the device, the management agents being configured to process network management instructions that are in different respective protocols. The API is common to the management agents, to provide access by the management agents to the managed network device component via the common API.