Patent ID: 9258206
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving an identifier of a second device on a network from a first reporting agent engine on a first device on the network, wherein a portion of the first reporting agent engine is part of a system administration agent program; determining whether to deploy all of the system administration agent program or a portion of the system administration agent program to the second device; if it is determined to deploy only the portion of the system administration agent program to the second device, instructing the first device to deploy the portion of the system administration agent program to the second device, wherein the portion of the system administration agent program is for implementation as a second reporting agent engine on a subsystem that includes the second device; if it is determined to deploy all of the system administration agent program to the second device, instructing the first device to deploy all of the system administration agent program to the second device and to deactivate the system administration agent program on the first device; receiving agent reports associated with the system administration agent program from one or more reporting agent engines, including the first reporting agent engine and the second reporting agent engine; identifying events from the agent reports; generating issue reports for a subset of the events; updating a system administration datastore in real-time based on the issue reports, wherein the updating results in a real-time update; sending a notification associated with the real-time update to a display.