Patent ID: 7340446

Claim:
In a network environment having a two or more managers for use by a network administrator to manage one or more resources, each resource having data and capable of performing one or more tasks as directed by the network administrator that modify the resource with the manager, a computer program product readable by a computer and encoding instructions for executing a method, the method comprising: providing the two or more managers, wherein each manager stores relevant information in a dedicated manager data store, and wherein each manager is operable to use the relevant information to manage one or more resources; initiating an installation event when installing a new resource onto the network; receiving, by each manager, a notification of the installation event that the new resource has been installed on the network environment; retrieving, by each manager, search information associated with data and tasks of the new resource; determining, by a first manager, that a first portion of the search information relates to the first manager; storing the first portion of the search information in a first manager data store; determining, by a second manager, that a second portion of the search information relates to the second manager; and storing the second portion of the search information in a second manager data store.