Patent ID: 9461934
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing network resources by a cloud consumer, the method comprising: receiving, by a cloud service provider hypervisor server that supports a cloud service provider hypervisor, a cloud consumer's management information base (MIB) from a cloud consumer, wherein the cloud consumer's MIB is a portable MIB that is capable of being loaded into multiple cloud service provider hypervisors; receiving, by a trap receiver in the cloud service provider hypervisor server, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap from a resource described by the cloud consumer's MIB, wherein the SNMP trap is an SNMP message, from the resource, that describes an event in the resource, and wherein the SNMP trap bypasses the cloud service provider hypervisor; and transferring, by the cloud service provider hypervisor server, the SNMP trap to the cloud consumer without any interpretation of the SNMP trap by the cloud service provider hypervisor.