Patent ID: 8020033

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a first requestor, a first request for a status of a logical entity modeled within a stored topology model of a networked system, the topology model including models of the logical entity and of physical entities included in the networked system; identifying models of physical entities that neighbor the logical entity; polling the identified physical entity models to obtain a status of physical entities represented by each of the respective physical entity models; prior to determining a status of the logical entity, receiving, from at least one second requestor, second requests for the status of the logical entity; adding an identifier of both the first and the at least one second requesters to a status requestor list; receiving status responses from polled physical entity models; determining a status of the logical entity as a function of the responses received from the polled physical entity models; and sending a status response to each requestor identified in the status requestor list.