Patent ID: 9075677
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter, wherein the method comprises: executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub within the datacenter instructing each of the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; wherein the agent provisioning script instructing each of the plurality of machines to download and instantiate the lightweight agent comprises the agent provisioning script to: pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) references from the control hub to the instantiated lightweight agent on each of the plurality of machines specifying one or more applications to be provisioned and one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications; and loading, via the lightweight agent at each of the plurality of machines, the one or more applications and the one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications into memory of each respective machine.