Patent ID: 7711803
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for management and configuration of remote agents, comprising: using a management device to provide at least one web service; providing an agent metadata service on each of a plurality of remote agents, each of the plurality of remote agents separated from the management device by a firewall, each agent metadata service operable to retrieve agent metadata residing on the remote agent based on one or more detection parameters; receiving, by the at least one web service, the agent metadata from the plurality of remote agents, the agent metadata transmitted to the web service of the management device through the firewall; detecting, by the at least one web service, at least one remote agent on a network based on the agent metadata; translating a schema associated with the at least one remote agent into a management side representation compatible with a manager repository; storing the management side representation of the schema associated with the at least one remote agent and the agent metadata in a manager repository; and using the at least one web service on the management device to perform at least one of managing and configuring the at least one remote agent based on the at least one web service, wherein the managing and configuring that is performed by the management device runs across the firewall.