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A data management method supports hot plug operations on a computer by defining, organizing, and maintaining hot plug variables which identify components of a computer that may be involved in hot plug operations, and which also identify capabilities and operational states of those components as well

A data management method supports hot plug operations on a computer by defining, organizing, and maintaining hot plug variables which identify components of a computer that may be involved in hot plug operations, and which also identify capabilities and operational states of those components as well as control their operation and interface to the computer. The hot plug variables identify a component as well as represent states and capabilities of a component, and thus the hot plug variables advantageously operate as commands to predetermined components. The method generally selects a plurality of variables to support adding a component to or exchanging components of a computer while the computer runs, and collects in a computer readable medium, hot plug variable data representing capabilities, characteristics or states of components of the computer, the hot plug variable data is related to the plurality of variables. The method supports generating, with management software running on a client computer, requests such as a suspend device driver request, a power off request, a power on request, and a resume device driver request, and sending the requests over a network to agent software running on a server computer, the agent software responsively recognizing the respective requests to suspend a device driver running on the server computer, to stop power to a component of the server computer, to start power to the server computer, and to resume the device driver.

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[ What is claimed is:] [25.] A method for controlling, from a client computer, hot plug operations performed on a server computer, said method comprising the acts of:preparing a hot plug management information base module defining hot plug management information base variables;compiling said hot plu

[ What is claimed is:] [25.] A method for controlling, from a client computer, hot plug operations performed on a server computer, said method comprising the acts of:preparing a hot plug management information base module defining hot plug management information base variables;compiling said hot plug management information base module to generate a binary management information base module;distributing said binary management information base module to a computer readable medium of said client computer and to a computer readable medium of said server computer;polling components of said server computer to generate server-based hot plug management information base variable data stored on a computer readable medium of said server computer, said server-based hot plug management information base variable data related to said hot plug management information base variables defined in said hot plug management information base module;refreshing client-based hot plug management information base variable data stored on a computer readable medium of said client computer by sending to said client computer said server-based hot plug management information base variable data;generating with management software running on said client computer, a suspend device driver request related to a component state variable defined by said management information base module;sending said suspend device driver request to agent software running on said server computer, said agent software responsively recognizing said suspend device driver request to suspend a device driver servicing a component of said server computer;generating with management software running on said client computer, a power off request related to a power state variable defined by said management information base module;sending said power off request to said agent software, said agent software responsively recognizing said power off request to stop power to a component of said server computer;generating with management software running on said client computer, a power on request related to a power state variable defined by said management information base module;sending said power on request to said agent software, said agent software responsively recognizing said power off request to start power to a component of said server computer;generating with management software running on said client computer, a resume device driver request related to a component state variable defined by said management information base module; andsending said resume device driver request to agent software running on said server computer, said agent software responsively recognizing said resume device driver request to resume said device driver.