Patent ID: 8095502
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, in a client data processing system, for automatically and proactively retrieving administrative maintenance tasks or potential issues from a set of directory servers without direct intervention from an administrator, the method comprising: responsive to an operation request being sent from a requesting application on the client data processing system to the set of directory servers and an administrative maintenance control mechanism in the client data processing system being active, determining, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, whether the operation request being sent from the requesting application to the set of directory servers is for an explicit cn=maintenance search or an explicit extended operation; responsive to the operation request failing to be for either the explicit cn=maintenance search or the explicit extended operation, automatically sending, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, an administrative maintenance control along with the operation request to the set of directory servers without direct intervention from the administrator; receiving, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, a response from the set of directory servers, wherein the response includes a response to the operation request and a response to the administrative maintenance control and wherein the response to the administrative maintenance control comprises at least one of the administrative maintenance tasks or the potential issues; responsive to receiving the response to the administrative maintenance control, automatically notifying, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, an end user application within the client data processing system that the at least one of the administrative maintenance tasks or the potential issues have been received; responsive to the operation request being either the explicit cn=maintenance search or the explicit extended operation, skipping, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, the step of determining whether the administrative maintenance control mechanism is active; sending, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, the operation request to the set of directory servers without the administrative maintenance control; receiving, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, a response to the explicit cn=maintenance search or the explicit extended operation from the set of directory servers, wherein the response to the explicit cn=maintenance search or the explicit extended operation comprises the at least one of the administrative maintenance tasks or the potential issues; and responsive to receiving the response to the explicit cn=maintenance search or the explicit extended operation, automatically notifying, by the administrative maintenance control mechanism, an end user application within the client data processing system that the at least one of the administrative maintenance tasks or the potential issues have been received.