Patent ID: 7069321

Claim:
A system for requesting information about Resources comprising: a Client CIM, for receiving a request from the Client for information about at least one Resource on a Cluster, and providing the request to a requesting Node on the Cluster; a requesting CIMOM, provided on the requesting Node and connected to the Client CIM, for receiving the request, wherein the requesting Node comprises a Multiplex Provider for communicating the request to additional CIMOM Nodes on the Cluster; and a plurality of additional CIMOM Nodes on the Cluster and connected to the requesting CIMOM Node, wherein, in response to the request, the Multiplex Provider sends a broadcast probe to the plurality of additional CIMOM Nodes on the Cluster, wherein the requesting Node receives a reply from one or more of the additional CIMOM Nodes and forwards the reply to the Client CIM and based on a scope of query received from the Client CIM, the requesting CIMOM transmits a query to the one or more of the additional CIMOM Nodes on the Cluster.