FORMALIZING DIFFUSING AND ENFORCING POLICY ADVISORIES AND MONITORING POLICY COMPLIANCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS

Application 580KOLNP/2004 published 2006-04-14, filed 2004-05-05
An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks (221) of computational devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a number of distributed clients (400) run on registered computers (201-203), gathering policy advisories (401) and reporting (405) relevance (403) to a system administrator (224). The system administrator may view the relevant messages (505) through a management interface (500) and deploy suggested actions to distributed clients (503), where the actions are executed to apply the solutions of the advisories (408). (FIG. - 1)

Applicant

BIGFIX INC
5915 HOLLIS STREET, EMERYVILLE CA 94608 USA

Inventor

HINDAWI DAVID SALIM DONOHO DAVID LEIGH LIPPINCOTT LISA ELLEN HINDAWI ORION YOSEF

International Info

Classification: G06F 15/16, 15173, 15/177
Publication Number: WO 03/040944 A1
Application Date: 2002-11-12

Priority Information

60/338,427 US 2001-11-09