METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE STATUS OF

专利名称：METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR

DETERMINING THE STATUS OF A DEVICE INA COMMUNICATION NETWORK

发明人：VAISHNAVI, Vick,KENNY, Patrick, R.,RYDEEN,

Michael, J.

申请号：EP96944845.0申请日：19961219公开号：EP0868800A1公开日：19981007

摘要：According to several aspects of the present invention, a network is monitoredfor status information indicative of the status of a manageable device within the network.A network manager receives the status information, and updates or initializes a devicemodel in accordance with the status information. A state machine may be used todetermine a new state for the device model, and to enable or disable the device model.The network manager may also take action to inquire as to the status of the manageabledevice, for example by polling the manageable device or by initiating a discovery process.The device model may be used by the network manager as a basis by which to controlthe manageable device, and thus control aspects of the communications within thenetwork.

申请人：CABLETRON SYSTEMS, INC.

地址：35 Industrial Way, P.O. Box 5005 Rochester, NH 03867-5005 US

国籍：US

代理机构：Driver, Virginia Rozanne, et al

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