Appeal No. 2001-0999
Application No. 08/972,220
The examiner maintains in the statement of the rejection that Daly teaches the
use of an administrative console 18 which the network administrator may remotely
manage the network service instantiations installed on the servers. (See answer at
page 4.) While Daly does teach the use of a remote administrative terminal, Daly does
not specifically teach that this remote administrative terminal is a “client.” Daly teaches:
FIG. 2 illustrates the remote administration model for a computer network.
In FIG. 2, the same servers 10 and client terminals 14 are coupled to
network bus 12 in a client-server architecture. However, the remote
network service management application 38 now resides at an
administrative console (AC) 18. Administrative console 18 represents the
computer terminal or workstation through which the network administrator
may remotely manage the network service instantiations installed on the
servers 10 of FIG. 2. An administrative console 18 may have
simultaneous logical sessions with more than one server 10 or more than
one service instantiation. Through these logical sessions, the remote
network service management application may view the configuration data
related to the service instantiations on the network servers and, if
appropriate, administer the network services installed thereon. The ability
to remotely manage network services on servers that may be
geographically dispersed from a centrally located administrative console is
particularly advantageous for large networks and therefore represents an
improvement over the local administration model of FIG. 1.
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In the prior art, remote network service management application 38
is programmed to specifically communicate with and administer the
network service instantiations on a specific network. When the prior art
remote network service management application 38 is executed at
administrative console 18, it communicates with selected servers in the
network to ascertain the statuses of the service instantiations installed
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