Manager object for management of multiple resources on dataless clients in a distributed computing environment

摘要

A method of managing a set of clients in a distributed computer network having a management server. A given client preferably includes a dataless management framework. According to the method, a manager object is associated to each application to be managed on a given client. The manager object preferably includes a registry composed of a set of elements, with each element corresponding to an instance of the application. The element comprises a data set of information representing a context of the application instance. All application instances are then managed through the manager object.