Patent ID: 7657945

Claim:
A method to define a subset of resources available to a supervisor instance to assign to clients operating under the supervisor instance, the method comprising: communicating an identifier of a host node to a configuration manager to determine a set of supervisor keys associated with the host node based upon the identifier, which identifies the host node upon which the supervisor instance is operating to the configuration manager; establishing, by the supervisor instance, a supervisor key name associated with the supervisor instance, the supervisor key name based upon a usage mode associated with operation of the supervisor instance; requesting, from the configuration manager, one or more supervisor keys of the set of supervisor keys associated with the supervisor key name; and receiving, by the supervisor instance, the one or more supervisor keys, the one or more supervisor keys to verify authorization for the supervisor instance to access the subset of resources, wherein the subset of resources comprise a number of queue pairs that can be consumed by the supervisor instance, the queue pairs being queues in a communications network coupled with the host node for both transmission and reception sides of a communication connection for the supervisor instance, and to obtain a set of client keys, wherein each client key of the set of client keys, when attached to a request by the client, provides verification of an authorization for the client related to establishment of a connection, the connection being associated with a resource of the subset of resources.