| 摘要 |
The invention provides a method and apparatus for use in an information handling network having an administrative control server and a number of administered servers that are members of the network and are managed by the control server, of providing maintenance of the administered servers for maintaining conformity of configuration of each of the administered servers to a predetermined configuration for all administered servers of the network while permitting evolution of the predetermined configuration from an initial network member configuration to a current network member configuration to which each of the administered servers is to conform, the method including: evolving, as required, the configuration of each server from its current configuration state to the current network member configuration in the following steps: initiating communication, by an administered server, of identification information to the control server identifying the administered server; verifying by the control server whether the administered server is a member of the network managed by the control server, and if it is so managed, then; determining by the control server whether the administered server configuration requires evolution to the current network member configuration; and, if evolution is required by the administered server, then the control server determines what commands are required to evolve the administered server configuration to the current network member configuration; the control server communicates the required commands to the administered server; the administered server executes the required commands to evolve its configuration to the current network member configuration; and the administered server communicates results of the execution of the commands to the control server identifying whether its configuration was successfully evolved to the current network member configuration.
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