Patent ID: 8706858

Claim:
An apparatus for managing flow of management task data to a database of a management system configured for managing a network having a plurality of network devices, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of management task buffers having a respective plurality of resource groups associated therewith, the plurality of resource groups having respective sets of the network devices associated therewith, the management task buffers configured to receive and store respective sets of management tasks from ones of the network devices in the respective sets of network devices associated with the respective resource groups with which the respective management task buffers are associated, the resource groups having respective portions of resources of the management system allocated thereto and having a respective plurality of weights associated therewith, wherein the weights of the resource groups are indicative of respective numbers of management tasks to be provided from the respective management task buffers to the database during a given time period; and a controller configured for controlling flow of the management tasks from the management task buffers to the database based on the weights of the resource groups with which the respective management task buffers are associated.