Patent ID: 7849179
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture for managing devices in a network, wherein the article of manufacture causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising: receiving a device independent command to perform device management operations with respect to at least one device in the network, wherein the received command is capable of being directed to at least one of a plurality of devices in the network; determining from a first mapping a network address of the device to which the received command is directed; determining from a second mapping at least one device specific command associated with the received device independent command, wherein the mapping indicates a mapping of at least one parameter included in the received device independent command to at least one parameter in the associated device specific command; generating the determined at least one device specific command to include as parameters the at least one parameter from the device independent command indicated in the second mapping; and transmitting the generated at least one device specific command to the device at the determined network address, wherein the device identified by the determined network address executes the at least one device specific command.