Patent ID: 11956115
Assignee: METALSOFT CLOUD, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for use with a geographically distributed data center having a plurality of managed equipment, the system comprising:
a plurality of agents configured to control the managed equipment of the geographically distributed data center; and
a controller configured to communicate management data with the plurality of agents via a management network, wherein the controller and the plurality of agents are configured in a hierarchical topology, and wherein a first subset of the plurality of agents are configured to relay management data on behalf of a second subset of agents of the plurality of agents, and wherein the controller is further configured to:
communicate, via the management network, with a new agent to be provisioned into the plurality of agents;
generate reconfiguration instructions that indicate an allocated parent agent of the plurality of agents to be associated with the new agent; and
facilitate a provisioning the new agent in accordance with the reconfiguration instructions, wherein the facilitating the provisioning includes connecting the new agent to the allocated parent agent of the plurality of agents via the management network and disconnecting the new agent from the controller;
wherein, when a child agent of the second subset of agents is disconnected from its designed parent agent included in the first subset of agents, the child agent is configured to:
retry connection with its designated parent agent for a configurable amount of time; and
when child agent fails to connect with its designated parent agent during the configurable amount of time, the child agent attempts reconnection with the controller.