Patent ID: 6604112
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for providing an interface that allows a server to be configured using a standard protocol, the server including a proprietary database having a plurality of classes, each of the plurality of classes capable of including at least one object instance, the at least one object instance being described by at least one descriptor, the proprietary database for managing the server, the method comprising the steps of:(a) reading the proprietary database; and (b) hierarchically saving a first plurality of locations of the plurality of classes and a second plurality of locations of the at least one object instance in a standard database accessible using the standard protocol; wherein, via the standard protocol, the standard database can be used to manage the server using the proprietary database; wherein the proprietary database is an object instance data manager (ODM) and the standard protocol is an SNMP protocol; wherein the standard database is a management information base (MIB).