XML based generic UNIX discovery framework
US9479396B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 31, 2013 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 12, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/0856
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Services that support recovery of a data center require collecting information concerning the service customer's physical and virtual infrastructure, and specifically the configuration of their operating systems such as UNIX operating systems. Here an automatic discovery tool executes within the context of a secure browser program. Once a user is authenticated, a JavaScript or HTML program seamlessly retrieves a file that is specific to the type and version of the UNIX operating system on the host; the file contains commands and parsing logic for the commands to retrieve configuration data. Once parsed, the program forwards that data to a database so that the replication service provider may then correctly provision recovery systems.
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