MULTICASTING NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A message is multicast to recipients by correlating the message at a management system to agents, each agent being responsible for a set of the recipients, and by conveying the message over a network to the correlated agents for transmission to the recipients. The management system maintains recipient lists wherein each list is associated with one or more agents, each agent maintaining a portion of its associated lists. The management system chooses a single recipient list and conveys an indication of the list to its associated agents. Each notified agent accesses the indicated list and sends the message to the listed recipients. In a further embodiment, an independent management system interfaces a plurality of management systems, each with a set of agents. The independent management system chooses a recipient list, the list being associated with a management system and its agents, and conveys the message based on the chosen list.