Patent ID: 8356055

Claim:
A method for registering a Common Information Model (CIM) agent to a management agent in a computing environment by a processor device, comprising: discovering, by the CIM agent, the management agent in a management domain in response to an insertion of the CIM agent into the management domain; registering, by the CIM agent, at least one of information of the CIM agent and the discovered management agent, the management agent compliant with the CIM agent; wherein the management agent converts a CIM schema of the CIM agent into a schema at the management agent identifiable by the management agent; and performing, by the management agent: setting up a communication connection with the CIM agent, capturing at least one CIM class from the CIM agent, determining a CIM schema to be converted from the CIM classes, determining an existence of a schema at the management agent corresponding the CIM schema to be converted, converting the CIM schema to be converted to the corresponding schema at the management agent according to a mapping specification corresponding m model of the management domain in response to a determination of no schema at the management agent corresponding to the CIM schema to be converted in the management agent that is compliant with the CIM agent, and recording a corresponding relationship between the schema at the management agent corresponding to the converted CIM schema and the CIM agent.