Patent ID: 7424711
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A medium storing processor-executable program code executed by a processor, the code comprising: code to provide a resource service module, the resource service module to expose an interface, to receive an invocation of the interface from a system management module, to request managed resource data associated with a manageable resource based on the invocation, to instruct the provider module to retrieve the resource data record from a memory location, and to store the resource data record in a resource data record repository; code of a the resource data record repository; the resource data record repository comprising a resource data record indicating the memory location of a managed host in which the managed resource data is stored; and code to provide a provider module, the provider module to receive the request and to retrieve the managed resource data from the memory location of the managed host, to receive an indication of the manageable resource and an indication of a memory location of the managed host in which the resource data record is stored, and to scan the memory of the managed host for a marker associated with resource data records of the managed host, wherein the marker comprises the indication of the manageable resource and the indication of the memory location of the managed host in which the resource data record is stored.