Patent ID: 6931356
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A management method for use in a manager device, for dynamically adjusting an amount of information retrieved from one or a plurality of managed devices in an information processing system, according to a provided level of service, said method comprising for each managed device, the steps of: each time an event generated by an alive timer is detected: each time an event generated by a monitoring timer is detected: if, based on service level information previously stored, the service level provided by the managed device meets a predetermined level of service: if, based on the service level information previously stored, the service level provided by the managed device does not meet the predetermined level of service: if a monitoring reply is received from the managed device in response to a monitoring request or to an alive request: if no alive reply to an alive request or no monitoring reply to a monitoring request is received from the managed device, and if, based on the service level information previously stored, the level of service provided by the managed device meets the predetermined level of service: