Abstract: The invention relates to separating data from a data stream. More specifically the invention relates to pre-registering tags and destinations for data marked with the particular tag. The invention also relates to sending a data sub-stream to a destination according to the pre-registered tag. The invention inserts a destination for data marked with the tag into a lookup table. The invention also scans a data stream for the tag to determine the destination to receive the data marked with the tag. The invention also teaches using a hash table to immediately determine the destination of a data stream. An embodiment of the invention sends a data stream to a service provider. Another embodiment of the invention sends an XML data sub-stream to a destination determined by information contained in pre-registered tags.

Abstract: A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a server machine servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpoint machines. A distributed system management framework is supported on the gateway machines and the one or more endpoint machines to carry out system management tasks. To enhance scalability, the endpoint machines support a low cost, low maintenance client component of the system management framework, and a corresponding server component is supported on each of the gateway machines. On an as-needed basis, appropriate executable code and system management data is delivered from a gateway to one or more endpoint machines to facilitate execution of a system management task for the managed region.

Abstract: A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a management server servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpoint machines. Upon power-up, an endpoint machine attempts to connect to its last known gateway. If the connection fails, the endpoint machine broadcasts a boot request with an extension unique to the management server but that is ignored by other servers in the network, including a boot server that would normally handle the boot request. The management server responds to the boot request by assigning the endpoint to a new host gateway.