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Details
Inventors: Lakis, David M.; Cluff, William A.; Webster, Mark D.; Cummings, Jay R.;
Assignee: Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
Primary Examiner: Burgess; Glenton B.
Assistant Examiner: Edelman; Bradley
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Processes and apparatuses are provided for managing one of a plurality of network manageable devices, each one of the plurality of network manageable devices having a unit of first management information associated therewith. A request is issued to a first computer from a second computer to access the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices. A first data structure is created for storing a unit of first device information for each one of the plurality of network manageable devices with each unit of first device information identifying its respective network manageable device. The first data structure is searched for a unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices and the unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices is used to locate the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to obviate the above-described problems and shortcomings by providing processes and apparatuses for quickly and efficiently accessing management information associated with a plurality of network manageable devices.
It is another object of the present invention to provide processes and apparatuses for using a proxy agent to retrieve management information from a plurality of network manageable devices in data communication with a management computer.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide processes and apparatuses for displaying management information from a plurality of network manageable devices in data communication with a management computer.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a preferred process for managing one of a plurality of network manageable devices is provided, wherein each one of the plurality of network manageable devices has a unit of first management information associated therewith.
A request is issued to a first computer from a second computer to access the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices.
A first data structure is created for storing a unit of first device information for each one of the plurality of network manageable devices with each unit of first device information identifying its respective network manageable device.
The first data structure is searched for a unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices and the unit of first device information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices is used to locate the unit of first management information associated with the one of the plurality of network manageable devices.
A computer system for implementing the above-described preferred process is also provided which comprises a first function in data communication with the first computer for creating a first data structure for storing a unit of first device information associated with each one of the plurality of network manageable devices


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