Patent ID: 8732308
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for coordinating information between management entities, the system comprising: a processor and memory; management hardware for running at least one of the management entities; at least one management channel built on top of a physical channel and providing bidirectional communication of control information and data between the management entities, wherein one or more of the management entities include a management application running on a virtual machine, the at least one management channel including a front-end module running on the virtual machine and a back-end module running on a management virtual machine; at least one management broker implementing a coordination policy for coordinating information from one or more of the management entities and making actuation decisions based on the information and the coordination policy; at least one management agent communicating information from the management application on the at least one management channel for transmission to the at least one management broker; and machine-readable instructions stored in the memory and executed by the processor to: