Patent ID: 8516091
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for mass configuring technical systems, the method comprising: receiving, in a central system connected to multiple systems, a call for mass configuration of technical systems, the call associated with a configuration manager and being generated from a first system of multiple systems, each system including multiple technical systems configured using a corresponding instance of the configuration manager, wherein configuration parameters for the first system are distributed between the corresponding instance and the technical systems; retrieving by the central system, from the corresponding instance of the configuration manager and in response to the call, identifiers for a plurality of the technical systems in the first system; retrieving by the central system, from the corresponding instance of configuration manager and from the plurality of technical systems, configurations for the plurality of technical systems; and forwarding, by the central system, an execute configuration communication to the corresponding instance of the configuration manager, the execute configuration including at least one parameter that has been changed from the retrieved configurations; wherein the corresponding instance of the configuration manager determines, based on activities required to perform the execution configuration, that the technical systems are to be mass configured, and wherein, based on the determination and the received execute configuration communication, the corresponding instance of the configuration manager mass configures the plurality of technical systems in the first system by configuring each of the plurality of technical systems in parallel; wherein the plurality of technical systems are also capable of being sequentially configured in a non-mass configuration process by the corresponding instance of the configuration manager in a case that it is determined that the technical systems are not to be mass configured based on activities required to perform the execution configuration.