Patent ID: 7478403
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network management system, comprising: a gateway which is coupled between a plurality of managed objects and a plurality of proxy agent managers; and which is configured to deliver one or more events generated by the managed objects to one or more managers and to deliver one or more requests generated by the managers to one or more of the managed objects, wherein each of the events and each of the requests include a user identification, wherein the user identification identifies the respective manager to which the event or the request belongs; a platform-independent interface to the gateway, wherein the gateway is configured to communicate with the one or more managers through the platform-independent interface to deliver the one or more events or the one or more requests, wherein the managers share a singleton Request Service Access Point (Request SAP) object; wherein the gateway is configured to provide object-level access control between the one or more managers and the managed objects to receive the one or more events from or to send the one or more requests to the managed objects, wherein said object-level access control is provided by the Request SAP object at an individual object level so that one of the one or more managers is granted access to one of the managed objects while being prevented from interfacing with a different one of the managed objects.