Computer system has management function that populates database cells with property identifiers and property values associated with property identifiers in associated cell groups

摘要

The computer system has a central database (12) for managing the computer system, local system components (14,16,18) with properties with associated property values and identifiers, agents (46,52,62) for transmitting at least one pair of values to the central database containing. a property value and identifier. The database has a first group of cells occupied by property values. A second group of database cells can be occupied by property identifiers and positively associated with one of the first cell group. A management function (42) can populate the second cell group with property identifiers and populates one of the first cell group with the property value associated with the property identifier in its associated second group cell.