Transaction control arrangement for device management system

Abstract

A method includes providing device management services to by defining one or more transaction control primitives and one or more transaction initiation commands for modifying a management tree of a managed device, mapping the transaction control primitives and transaction initiation commands to device management commands for the managed device, transmitting the device management commands to the managed device, determining a relevance of any of the transmitted device management commands that fail to execute, and based on the relevance determination, allowing the managed device to modify the management tree without executing the commands that fail to execute.

1 . An apparatus comprising:
 a memory; and   a processor coupled to the memory operable to implement:
 a service management manager configured for defining one or more transaction control primitives and associated device management commands for performing a controlled transaction in a managed device, the controlled transaction comprising one or more checkpoints between a starting point and an ending point of the controlled transaction; and 
 a device management manager configured for: 
 sending a first plurality of device management commands associated with the one or more transaction control primitives to the managed device, 
 determining whether there was an execution failure among the first plurality of device management commands, 
 in response to determining that there was an execution failure, determining a rollback primitive for returning the managed device to a last successfully achieved checkpoint prior to the execution failure, 
 determining an alternate set of transaction primitives stored in the memory device, and 
 sending a second plurality of device management commands to the managed device. 
   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus to  claim 1 , the service management manager is further configured for defining at least one device management command corresponding to a transaction control primitive for closing the controlled transaction upon successful completion.