Patent ID: 8230056

Claim:
A manager engine system operable for use with a computer network, the computer network including a plurality of managed sites, each of the plurality of managed sites including a plurality of manager engine computers, each one manager engine computer of the plurality of manager engine computers coupled to a corresponding plurality of managed nodes, the manager engine computer system comprising: a computing processor; computing memory communicatively coupled with the computing processor, the computing memory having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that cause the system to perform operations comprising: operating a management component being capable of retrieving and storing data representative of network state information, the network state information comprising a subset of a plurality of managed network elements, wherein at least one of the subset of the plurality of managed network elements represents at least one of the corresponding plurality of managed nodes; and operating a managed element assignment manager component, the managed element assignment manager software component facilitating assignment of the managed network elements among the plurality of manager engine computers using a load balancing formula, the load balancing algorithm incorporating load balancing parameters, the managed element assignment management component performing the following: generating a mean engine load for a plurality of managed nodes; identifying managed nodes in the plurality of managed nodes with a load outside of an established interval of the generated mean engine load; creating a first sorted list from the identified managed nodes, the first sorted list comprising managed nodes having a load greater than an average load of the plurality of managed nodes; creating a second sorted list of identified managed nodes, the second sorted list comprising managed nodes having a load less than an average load of the plurality of managed nodes; reassigning processing from managed nodes in the first sorted list to managed nodes in the second sorted list.