Patent ID: 7430590
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to facilitate provision of services to a managed system, the method including: causing installation of an agent application including an inventory component and an install component on the managed system; at a management system, receiving service input from a control center, the service input identifying a subset of a plurality of service applications to be installed on the managed system, each of the plurality of service applications to facilitate provision of a service provided by a respective service provider of a plurality of service providers to the managed system; at the management system, receiving inventory information from the inventory component of the agent application pertaining to the managed system, the inventory information used to determine whether the managed system is qualified to receive provision of a respective service facilitated by each service application of the subset of the plurality of service applications; and at the management system, upon qualification, distributing the subset of the plurality of service applications to the install component of the agent application, the install component to install the subset of the plurality of service applications on the managed system.