Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

James A Perreault

Harold Martin Sandstrom

Todd R Gill

Bradley Allen Bowlin

Vinay S Sachdev

John S Neil

Reshma P Chitre

Eric A Covino

Brion E Stultz

In large complex multi-path storage environments, knowing there is a problem is extremely valuable. Example embodiments of the present invention include a management framework that provides an easy to use and read graphical perspective that allows analysis of faults in a multi-path storage environment. The architecture is not only responsive, scalable, and robust, but also provides 'middleware' services to a broad spectrum of enterprise management applications whose domains may extend beyond storage path management. The management framework includes a consolidator that, along with an agent on the hosts, supports an administrator in: collecting storage path information from hosts; summarizing, aggregating, filtering, and reformatting storage path information to serve enterprise management needs and policies; forwarding an alert regarding storage path information to interested managers; routing storage path management commands from managers to hosts; and reporting command completion status from the host back to the requesting manager.

Storage path management host view

Storage path management bus view

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Concord, MA, United States of America

James A Perreault