Emc Corporation

Alex Dubrovsky

Yifeng Chen

Steven M Blumenau

James Edward Lavallee

Dar S Efroni

Vikram Patki

Haim Kirshenberg

Kevin M Ligozio

Anthony Michael Fiorentino

Methods and systems of maintaining a computed relationship between components in a network are disclosed. A relationship represents one or more connections between components. Discovered relationships between components in the network are detected. A discovered relationship represents a direct connection between components. A computed relationship between a class of source component and a class of target component is determined. The computed relationship comprises a number of discovered relationships that, when combined, represent connections between one or more types of the source component and one or more types of the target component. The computed relationship is stored. The discovered relationships that comprise the computed relationship are monitored for a change event. The change event may represent a change in the network, such as the addition or deletion of one or more components.

Storing and monitoring computed relationships between network components

A management station includes a management application that controls zoning within devices manufactured or provided from different vendors within a network, such as a data storage network. The management application receives a generic zone control command from a user to control zoning within a device in the network. The management application translates the zone control command to one or more vendor specific device zone control commands in a vendor specific device command set that is specifically designed to control zoning within devices from a specific vendor. To perform the translation, the management application identifies the vendor of one or more devices that are affected by the zone control command. Based on this identification, the management application selects an appropriate vendor specific device command set that contains vendor specific zone control commands.

Methods and apparatus for controlling devices within storage network

Mechanisms and techniques provide a management application providing an enterprise storage area network application programming interface for managing elements in a storage area network. The management application initializes a plurality of access wrappers that each defines operations for management of a respective class of elements operating within the storage area network. The management application provides, to a management client, connection data associated with a specific element associated with one of the plurality of access wrappers. The connection data identifies connection data parameters for performing management of the specific element in the storage area network. The management application receives at least one generic management command for the specific element. The generic management command includes at least a portion of the associated connection data for the specific element. The management application operates at least one access wrapper to translate the at least one generic management command into an operation of at least one vendor-specific command to manage the vendor specific element in the storage area network.

Methods and apparatus for managing devices within storage area networks

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