Patent ID: 9485134
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing system management agent configurations, which comprise agent system management programs and program parameters, in a distributed environment comprising distributed systems having at least one agent installed, the method comprising: requesting a configuration server to send a configuration record describing an agent configuration for a distributed system needing a configuration, wherein said configuration record is a representation of a software configuration in terms of programs and program parameters for executing a system management function; receiving from the configuration server the configuration record describing the agent configuration; computing a current agent configuration record corresponding to a current agent configuration installed on the distributed system needing the configuration; identifying if the current agent configuration record is different from the configuration record received from the server, and requesting the configuration server to send a list of distributed systems which are supposed to have the same agent configuration in response to the current agent configuration record being different from the configuration record received from the server; contacting the distributed systems of the list and selecting one having a current configuration record which matches the configuration record received from the server; requesting the matching distributed system of the list to send its agent configuration; and upon reception of the agent configuration, installing, by a processor, the agent configuration on the distributed system needing the configuration.