Patent ID: 8782769
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for use in a computing environment which includes a traffic director component, comprising: one or more computer servers, operating as a traffic director environment, and having one or more server instances, wherein the server instances are managed using one or more mbeans or other management software components; an administration server, which is used to manage the traffic director environment, wherein the administration server includes a configuration store having a collection of configurable elements that determine a run-time behavior of the server instances; and a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) infrastructure and management service provided at the administration server, which maps REST calls received from administration consoles or other user interfaces to the mbeans or other management software components registered on the administration server, for use in managing the traffic director environment, including wherein the REST infrastructure includes a security component which requires entities communicating a management request to first login or otherwise authenticate themselves with the security component, wherein in response to authenticating with the security component, the entity receives the security token, which must be included as part of the request header for subsequent management requests.