Robbe Mellencamp

US Patent:

6457063, Sep 24, 2002

Filed:

Apr 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/070494

Inventors:

Murthy V. R. Chintalapati - Mountain View CA
Robbe D. Mellencamp - Atherton CA

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 944

US Classification:

709317, 709104, 709202, 709316, 709229, 709224

Abstract:

Apparatus, methods and computer program products are disclosed that allow for dynamic administration, management and monitoring of daemon programs executing within a computer. The invention uses service agent programs to communicate with a daemon program that provides services for a resource. The daemon program responds to administrative messages from the service agent. The service agent program uses these administrative messages to interact with the daemon program to perform administrative operations on the daemon program or the resources served by the daemon program without requiring the daemon program to be terminated and restarted.