Patent ID: 6742020
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer network comprising:a plurality of machines further comprising a first machine, a second machine, and a third machine; communication resources for communicating between and coupled to the machines of the plurality of machines, the communication resources further comprising a switch; a first storage system coupled to the first machine, the first storage system containing a first portion of a metadata registry; a second storage system coupled to the second machine, the second storage system containing a second portion of the metadata registry, and wherein the second portion of the metadata registry is permitted to overlap the first portion of the metadata registry; wherein the third machine contains a local copy of part of the metadata registry; wherein a command object of the metadata registry comprises network address information about at least some of the machines of the computer network that participate in a first communication between said machines; and wherein an agent monitors additional communications between the machines of the computer network for communications relevant to the command object, the agent being configured to modify the command object by adding thereto network address information of additional machines of the computer network that should participate in the first communication between said machines to maintain coherency of the metadata registry.