Patent Application

App. No. 12/783,695

Abstract

Claims (52)

1 . A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly recording computer program logic for managing configurations in a computer system, the computer program product comprising:

code to configure network information in a first Operating System (OS) environment; and

code to pass the network information to a second OS environment; and

code to effectuate the network information in the first and second OS environments without rebooting the first and second OS environments.

2 . The computer program product of claim 1 in which the code to configure network information comprises:

code to create at least one configuration file using the network information; and further in which the code to effectuate the network information comprises:

code to instantiate the least one configuration file without rebooting the first and second OS environments.

3 . The computer program product of claim 1 in which the code to pass the network information comprises:

code to pass changes from the second OS environment to the first OS environment.

4 . The computer program product of claim 1 in which the code to effectuate the network information comprises:

code to restart a communication program within an emulator of the first OS environment.

5 . The computer program product of claim 1 in which the first OS environment comprises:

code to implement a communication program that configures the network information;

code to implement an emulator in which the communication program runs; and

code to implement a system controller in which the emulator runs, the system controller controlling a distributed computer system that spans the first and second OS environments.

6 . The computer program product of claim 1 in which the network information comprises at least one of:

Network Interface Card (NIC) information;

Internet Protocol (IP) information; and

router information.

7 . A system for managing network configurations in a distributed computing system, the system comprising:

a first functional unit that generates network configuration information for the distributed computing system in a first Operating System (OS) environment;

a second functional unit that passes the network configuration information from the first OS environment to the second OS environment; and

a third functional unit that effectuates the network configuration information in the first OS environment without restarting the first OS environment.

8 . The system of claim 7 further comprising:

a fourth functional unit that effectuates the network configuration information in the second OS environment without restarting the second OS environment.

9 . The system of claim 7 in which the network configuration information comprises at least one of:

Network Interface Card (NIC) information;

Internet Protocol (IP) information; and

router information.

10 . The system of claim 7 in which the second functional unit comprises:

a module that passes changes from the second OS environment to the first OS environment.

11 . The system of claim 7 in which the first functional unit creates at least one configuration file using the network configuration information, and in which the third functional unit instantiates the least one configuration file.

12 . The system of claim 7 in which the first and third functional units are run in a system controller that controls the distributed computing system, the computing system spanning the first and second OS environments.

13 . A system for managing network configurations in a distributed computer platform, the distributed computer platform spanning a first Operating System (OS) environment and a second OS environment, the system comprising:

means for configuring network changes in the first OS environment; and

means for implementing the network changes in the first OS environment and the second OS environment without restarting one of the first and second OS environments.

14 . The system of claim 13 in which the configuring means comprises means for creating a configuration file from the network changes; and in which the implementing means comprises means for instantiating the configuration file by restarting a computer program within the first OS environment.

15 . The system of claim 13 in which in which the network changes comprise at least one of:

Network Interface Card (NIC) changes;

Internet Protocol (IP) information changes; and

router changes.

16 . The system of claim 13 in which the implementing means comprises:

means for passing the network changes to the second OS environment.

17 . The system of claim 13 in which the configuring means comprises a Graphical User Interface (GUI) accepting user input.

18 . A computer implemented method for managing network configurations in a distributed computing system that spans a first Operating System (OS) environment and a second OS environment, the distributed computing system managed from the first OS environment, the method comprising:

effectuating network changes in the first OS environment without rebooting the first OS environment; and

passing the network changes to the second OS environment.

19 . The method of claim 18 further comprising:

effectuating the network changes in the second OS environment without rebooting the second OS environment.

20 . The method of claim 18 in which effectuating network changes comprises:

creating at least one configuration file that includes information about the network changes; and

instantiating the at least one configuration file upon creation thereof.

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