Abstract: An example system includes one or more resource managers forming a federation of resources, at least one resource manager being associated with one or more resources; a federation hub for receiving local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers, wherein the federation hub aggregates the local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers and provides an aggregated view of all resources of the federation; and a bylaw guardian for determining compliance of each of the one or more resource managers to requirements of the federation.

Abstract: An example system includes one or more resource managers forming a federation of resources, at least one resource manager being associated with one or more resources; a federation hub for receiving local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers, wherein the federation hub aggregates the local resource information from each of the one or more resource managers and provides an aggregated view of all resources of the federation; and a bylaw guardian for determining compliance of each of the one or more resource managers to requirements of the federation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for discovering IP and MAC addresses by an application program in a network. The network includes a number of SNMP-manageable and non-SNMP-manageable devices. Active devices can be discovered by the discovery node through a serial pinging mechanism which populates the MIB of the discovery node with IP and/or MAC addresses of all the devices on the network. An SNMP agent on the network is then used to perform a GetNext request that returns to the process layer the IP and MAC addresses of the non-SNMP manageable and SNMP-manageable devices.

Abstract: An object oriented distributed computing system is provided. Processing means call a location service within automatically generated stubs in response to a request for a service provided by a particular object. The location service is automatically called on behalf of the requester to locate the target object when the request is issued. Multiple Object Managers reflecting multiple Object Models are permitted in the system. Programmers and users do not need to know the Object Model adhered to by an Object Manager. A request to any object in the system is independent of the Object Model of the sought object's Object Manager. A generic interface enables new Object Managers reflecting new Object Models to be easily added to the system. Availability of the target object is independent of association of the target object with a process at the time the request was issued. Deactivation of processes is automatically accomplished in response to the system needing resources.