Emc Corporation

Anthony Arous

Chenlan Guo

Jeffrey C Peterson

Gregory William Lazar

Tianming Zhang

Seth B Horan

Weijing Song

Keith V Boland

Purushottam B Sane

James Huang

Computer file archiving systems and techniques are described. Various aspects include wide area high-availability file archiving, volume-level management capabilities of archiving systems, and methods and systems for storing file archiving metadata. The methods and systems described can be used individually or in combination.

Storage of file archiving metadata

A server device is configured to perform a method for providing object class information to a management device. The method includes mapping user names included as part of entries of a database associated with the server device to a corresponding Common Information Model (CIM) object manager operating system (OS) role. The method includes receiving a management request associated with the management device, the management request having management request credential information. The method includes authenticating the management request to an operating system associated with the server device based upon the management request credential information. The method includes following authentication, authorizing the management device to a corresponding CIM object manager OS role using the management request credential information. The method includes executing a CIM object call associated with the management request using the associated CIM object manager OS role to access object class information in response to the management request.

Credential authentication and authorization in a server device

High-availability file archiving

Control of storage volumes in file archiving

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Anthony Arous