Dynamic identification and administration of networked clients

a networked client and dynamic identification technology, applied in the field of networked computing environments, can solve the problems of not allowing administrators to perform actions on devices based on their exact configuration, no longer valid query, and limited approach to configuration and actions

Active Publication Date: 2009-07-28
NEW BOUNDARY TECH
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As soon as a single device configuration changes, the query is no longer valid.
Further, because the configuration data is harvested centrally in one step and then queried as a second step, these methods do not allow administrators to perform actions on devices based on their exact configuration at the point the action is to be carried out.
Such approaches are limited to the configurations and actions that apply to the installation or patch.
They are thus insufficient for the many diverse actions administrators potentially need to carry out on networked devices.

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[0054] FIG. 8 is an example embodiment of a method 800 according to an embodiment of the present inventive subject matter. This example illustrates a network-wide embodiment of the method 800.

[0055]In this embodiment, the method 800 begins with a system administrator authoring 802 configurations of interest and actions to be carried out on computers matching those configurations. In this embodiment, the authored configurations and actions are stored by the server. A client evaluates 804 its state relative to any configurations of interest it has previously received from the server. After the evaluation, the client then sends 806 a data structure to the server. In some embodiments, the data structure contains the client state relative to the configurations of interest the client last received or a request for the latest configurations of interest. In response to the data structure received from the client, the server then sends 808 a data structure back to the client. The data struct...

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The present inventive subject matter relates to networked computing environments and more specifically to dynamic identification and administration of networked clients. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for defining, on a server, a configuration of interest comprising one or more potential properties of a client, communicating the configurations of interest over a network to one or more clients, dynamically evaluating a client state relative to the configurations of interest, and communicating a representation of the client state in relation to the configuration of interest to the server. Further embodiments include automatically creating and displaying associations of clients based on configurations of interest. Yet further embodiments include clients requesting and receiving updates to the configurations of interest. Still further embodiments include actions associated with configurations of interest. Such actions, in various embodiments, include performing administrative actions on various networked clients.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present inventive subject matter relates to networked computing environments and more specifically to dynamic identification and administration of networked clients.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The challenges of remotely administering networked devices are twofold. First, there must exist a means of remotely carrying out an action at a networked device. Second, and no less importantly, there must exist a means of identifying at which networked devices the action is to be carried out. This second challenge has traditionally been met with purely manual steps on the part of the person performing the administration. For instance, an administrator might add a device to a group of devices where a specific administrative action is to be carried out.[0003]Often the actions that are to be carried out on a networked device are not associated with the device's identity or name, but rather with its properties, or configuration. For instance, the administrator...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/177G06F1/24G06F15/173G06F9/44G06F17/30G06F15/16G06F12/00G06F3/00G06F7/00G06F9/24G06F9/445G06F9/00G06F17/00
CPCH04L41/085H04L41/082G06F8/65G06F8/60
Inventor HOVE, JAMES B.HARRIS, EMILY J. D.PICKETT, DAVID A.
Owner NEW BOUNDARY TECH
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