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Management of network distributed agents in a distributed computing environment
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Inventors: Buickel, Larry Lee; Godwin, Debbie Ann; Hamilton, Howard Daniel; Hansen, Kathryn Isobel; Harvey, Jr., Charlie Buddy;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Lintz; Paul R.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Henkler; Richard A.
A method and system for providing a single access point for the resources of application programs distributed within a network. The single access point is provided via a master object comprising an application identification list and a plurality of application procedure interfaces. Each of the application programs has an associated agent for managing the resources of the associated application program. These agents manage the resources using a subset of the plurality of application procedure interfaces of the master object. The application identification list of the master object is used for storing the binding handle of the agent as well as the identification for the associated application. A client or user accesses the resources of a particular application program by specifying the identification of the application program and the required action to be taken by the application program to the master object. The master object uses this information to search the application identification list for a matching application identification, and after finding one, thereafter invoking the corresponding application procedure interface in the agent identified by the matching binding handle. Thus, invoking the required resource of the application program to perform the requested action. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE PRESENT INVENTION Reference now being made to FIG.
1, a schematic diagram is shown illustrating various components of a Local Area Network (LAN) 100 according to the teachings of the present invention.
The LAN 100 is heterogeneously populated with DCE cell members 106-106n, 110-110n, and 112--112n, non-DCE cell members 108-108n, Distributed Access Administration Tool (DAAT) server 104, and Master Object (MOB) 114.
In this particular embodiment, a DCE cell is defined by DCE cell servers 102, DCE cell members 106-106n with agents, DCE cell members 110-110n without agents, and DCE cell members 112-112n with clients.
It is well understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that any DCE cell is defined by its members, and therefore, the boundaries of the DCE cell are logical as opposed to geographical.
It should also be clearly understood that the LAN 100 is merely illustrative of one of numerous variations in which the present invention can be practiced.
Reference now being made to FIG.
2, a block diagram is shown illustrating in greater detail selected components of the LAN 100 of FIG.
1 according to the teachings of the present invention.
As is shown in FIG.
2, each of the DCE cell members having a client 112-112n communicate with DAAT server 104, which in turn communicates with Master Object (MOB) 114.
MOB 114 communicates with DCE Cell servers 102 and DCE cell members 106-106n having an agent 214-214n.
Each one of the agents 214-214n has an application 216-216n, respectively.
A brief description of each one of the above noted components is provided below.
Each one of the DCE cell members 112-112n gather data from their respective users and send requests to DAAT 104.
The requests may be, for example, creation of a user ID, deletion of a user ID, or ID password reset.
DAAT server 104 process these requests by communicating with applications 216-216n via MOB 114 and agents 214-214n, respectively.
DAAT server 104 includes a task manager 202, a request queue database 204, a memory queue 206, and a task processor 208
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