Patent ID: 8751635

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring sensors for systems management, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that when executed by the computer processor cause the computer processor to: establishing, by a server, an entity identification for a component of the server, the entity identification comprising an identifier of a component of the server that is monitored by one or more of a plurality of sensors; establishing, by the server, for the plurality of sensors a single virtual sensor number; establishing, by the server, for each sensor having the single virtual sensor number a unique instance identification representing the sensor; receiving, from a system management node, by the server, a request for a sensor reading, the request including the entity identification, the single virtual sensor number, and the unique instance identification; based on the entity identification, the single virtual sensor number, and the unique instance identification, retrieving, by the server, a sensor reading; and transmitting to the system management node, by the server, the sensor reading.