公开(公告)号：CA2281370C

公开(公告)日：2002-11-26

申请号：CA2281370

申请日：1999-09-01

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： HORMAN RANDALL WILLIAM

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  G11B23/00

Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for use in an information handling network having an administrative control server and a number of administered servers that are members of the network and are managed by the control server, of providing maintenance of the administered servers for maintaining conformity of configuration of each of the administered servers to a predetermined configuration for all administered servers of the network while permitting evolution of the predetermined configuration from an initial network member configuration to a current network member configuration to which each of the administered servers is to conform, the method including: evolving, as required, the configuration of each server from its current configuration state to the current network member configuration in the following steps: initiating communication, by an administered server, of identification information to the control server identifying the administered server; verifying by the control server whether the administered server is a member of the network managed by the control server, and if it is so managed, then; determining by the control server whether the administered server configuration requires evolution to the current network member configuration; and, if evolution is required by the administered server, then the control server determines what commands are required to evolve the administered server configuration to the current network member configuration; the control server communicates the required commands to the administered server; the administered server executes the required commands to evolve its configuration to the current network member configuration; and the administered server communicates results of the execution of the commands to the control server identifying whether its configuration was successfully evolved to the current network member configuration.

公开(公告)号：CA2281367A1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-01

申请号：CA2281367

申请日：1999-09-01

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： HORMAN RANDALL WILLIAM

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  G11B23/00

Abstract: The invention provides method and apparatus for an improved data processing system having an administrative control server; an administrative control database, connected to said administrative control server; and at least one group of servers having similar, but not necessarily identical, configurations adapted for communication with the administrative control server for administrative control thereby, in which the control server can change the configurations of the administered servers to a new desired configuration fo r each administered server where the new configuration is in synchronization with the configuration of each of said other administered server, by generating synchronization instructions from parameterized synchronization scripts stored in the control database.

公开(公告)号：CA2281367C

公开(公告)日：2002-12-17

申请号：CA2281367

申请日：1999-09-01

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： HORMAN RANDALL WILLIAM

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  G11B23/00

Abstract: The invention provides method and apparatus for an improved data processing system having an administrative control server; an administrative control database, connected to said administrative control server; and at least one group of servers having similar, but not necessarily identical, configurations adapted for communication with the administrative control server for administrative control thereby, in which the control server can change the configurations of the administered servers to a new desired configuration fo r each administered server where the new configuration is in synchronization with the configuration of each of said other administered server, by generating synchronization instructions from parameterized synchronization scripts stored in the control database.

公开(公告)号：CA2281370A1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-01

申请号：CA2281370

申请日：1999-09-01

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： HORMAN RANDALL WILLIAM

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  G11B23/00

Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for use in an information handling network having an administrative control server and a number of administered servers that are members of the network and are managed by the control server, of providing maintenance of the administered servers for maintaining conformity of configuration of each of the administered servers to a predetermined configuration for all administered servers of the network while permitting evolution of the predetermined configuration from an initial network member configuration to a current network member configuration to which each of the administered servers is to conform, the method including: evolving, as required, the configuration of each server from its current configuration state to the current network member configuration in the following steps: initiating communication, by an administered server, of identification information to the control server identifying the administered server; verifying by the control server whether the administered server is a member of the network managed by the control server, and if it is so managed, then; determining by the control server whether the administered server configuration requires evolution to the current network member configuration; and, if evolution is required by the administered server, then the control server determines what commands are required to evolve the administered server configuration to the current network member configuration; the control server communicates the required commands to the administered server; the administered server executes the required commands to evolve its configuration to the current network member configuration; and the administered server communicates results of the execution of the commands to the control server identifying whether its configuration was successfully evolved to the current network member configuration.

公开(公告)号：CA2357937A1

公开(公告)日：2003-03-28

申请号：CA2357937

申请日：2001-09-28

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： HORMAN RANDALL WILLIAM ,  LIGHTSTONE SAM S ,  VALENTIN GARY

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: A diagnostic tool for a database system. The diagnostic system includes a grouping module for assigning a grouping identifier to each query received by the database system; and a statistics collection module. The statistics collection module includes a query processing statistics module for obtaining processing statistics corresponding to each query; a group statistics compilation module for compiling processing statistics for each query by the query's grouping identifier; and group data storage for storing compiled processing statistics. A method is also disclos ed for generating database diagnostic data.