Reconfiguring computer resources in a distributed computer enter

Details Reconfiguring computer resources in a distributed computer enter Reconfiguring computer resources in a distributed computer enter

1996-10-01

1999-02-23

Hindi, Nabil

39520056, 39520054, H04B 300, H04J 1300

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058753060

ABSTRACT:
A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a management server servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpoint machines. Upon power-up, an endpoint machine attempts to connect to its last known gateway. If the connection fails, the endpoint machine broadcasts a boot request with an extension unique to the management server but that is ignored by other servers in the network, including a boot server that would normally handle the boot request. The management server responds to the boot request by assigning the endpoint to a new host gateway.

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