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Computer management system and associated management information base

US5471617A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 21, 1992
Grant dateNov 28, 1995
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Expiry dateAug 21, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/104
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of managing a plurality of networked manageable devices which include at least one file server having a system board, a drive array subsystem associated with the file server and a server manager installed in the file server for monitoring the system board from a manager console using a management information base or "MIB". First, second and third plurality of objects which describe the system board, the drive array subsystem and the server manager, respectively, are collected and assembled into a MIB. The assembled MIB is then used to manage the file server.

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