Richard Campbell Foltz - Round Rock TX William Harold Gengler - Austin TX Joseph Christopher Lucas - Round Rock TX John Vincent Meegan - Austin TX Troy Gary Reish - Austin TX James Michael Rolette - Austin TX
Assignee:
International Business Machine Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 1200
US Classification:
395609
Abstract:
A method and architecture for the administration of large cells in an Open System Foundation/Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE). The architecture organizes the Cell Directory Service (CDS) name space of the OSF/DCE to allow a network administrator to easily determine network resources under their control, and work with a subset of the network resources. The OSF/DCE name space is organized as resource realms having a CDS component and a registry component. The CDS component of the resource realms has a fixed portion containing at least two roots describing sub-systems and realm resources (e. g. , printer, serial devices, etc. ). The CDS component also contains individual realms defined directly below the fixed portions. The registry component has a root consisting of the security, group and realm portions. Individual realms are defined as directories below the root.