Patent ID: 7685316

Claim:
A device manager adapted to coordinate configuration information across first and second management domains, the device manager comprising: a computer processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having one or more instructions encoded thereon, the one or more instructions being executable by the computer processor, and when executed operable to: receive from a network using an automated messaging protocol, configuration information from the first management domain in a first format, the configuration information being supplied via the automated messaging protocol to a plurality of device managers, wherein the first format comprises extensible markup language (XML) meta data, the first management domain having a first device, the configuration information being for configuring a feature on the first device; convert the configuration information to a second format using an XML parser, wherein the received configuration information in the first format and the converted configuration information in the second format are semantically identical, the XML parser being updated via a signature file such that the XML parser understands an updated list of commands for the configuration information, the signature file update considering subsets of commands that are understood by different XML parsers and a full range of available commands for the configuration information; send the converted configuration information in the second format to a second device managed by the device manager, the second format being readable by the second device, the second device being in the second management domain; and access the configuration information in the second format in the second device to configure the feature on the second device such that a mirrored configuration of the feature is formed on the first and the second devices, the first and second devices having different native command formats.