Hitachi, Ltd.

Shigeru Miyake

Satoru Tezuka

Takeshi Ishizaki

Kenichi Kihara

Satoshi Miyazaki

Hiroshi Furukawa

Toshiaki Hirata

Keizo Mizuguchi

Takaki Kuroda

Masanori Honda

Satoru Matsumura

Hideyuki Yamamoto

Hideomi Idei

Akihiro Urano

Taro Inoue

Chiho Kitahara

Shihoko Taguchi

Yousuke Tsuyuki

Hikari Namba

Koichiro Otani

Yoshiyuki Kurosaki

Akio Shigeta

Alberto Suzano

Koichi Kimura

Minoru Koizumi

Keiichi Nakane

Naomichi Nonaka

Osamu Takada

Kenichi Yoshida

Atsushi Murase

Takashi Yoshimaru

Tomoichi Ebata

Mika Mizutani

Kenji Kawakita

Shotaro Tamayama

Emiko Kobayashi

Hiromichi Itoh

Masatoshi Takihiro

Toru Horimoto

Souichi Takashige

Shigeyuki Kobayashi

Koji Tsukada

Shogo Mikami

Masaaki Oya

Shingo Utsuki

Takashi Kagei

Akira Mineo

Toui Miyawaki

Eiji Matsumura

Kenji Kawaguchi

Yoshihiro Kamata

Tomohiro Morisada

Hideaki Ishida

Yusuke Izumida

Junji Inaba

Atsushi Mitomi

Yasuo Takenaka

Reiko Iwasaki

Yoichiro Sakurai

The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation, management, and access control of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitable network services, for example. In representative embodiments, techniques for constructing integrated network and storage services are provided. In a specific embodiment, the service comprises of three major service components: virtual private networks (VPN), application servers and storage area networks (SAN). Each of these service components has its own customer identification information, such as VPN identifier for VPN services, process identifier for application servers and logical unit number (LUN) for storage devices.

Intergrated service management system

In a storage session management system in a storage area network, the session information blocks periodically collected from the storage devices in the network are grouped based on the information indicating the relation between sessions. That is, since a storage session management server in the management system integrally manages constitution information and operation information, when there is a possibility that circumstances such as a failure and the deterioration of performance occur in information devices, a failure notification module displays such circumstances and makes notification of them to a minimum necessary range that is consolidated by a session consolidation module, thereby a storage session can be managed without applying loads on the respective information devices and the network.

Storage session management system in storage area network

Integrated service management system

An integrated database system comprises a plurality of database systems connected to one another through a network, each of the plurality of database systems managing its own stored data independently of the other database systems and accessing the stored data in accordance with an access request, and an integrated database unit connected to the network. The integrated database unit includes a directory database which stores a correspondence between each of the data stored in the plurality of database systems and a database system in which each of the data is stored, a directory control unit which acquires, by using the directory database, directory information corresponding to target data of the accepted access request, a database identifying unit which identifies a database system, and a database control unit which issues, on the basis of the acquired directory information, an access request to the database system having the target data of the accepted access request. The database system includes a database server unit which accesses a database in accordance with the access request issued by the integrated database unit.

Integrated database system and method for accessing a plurality of databases

The invention relates to a network management method wherein: a service management equipment holds the mapping of services and virtual networks as management information; a managed server sends an advice to a VLAN management equipment when its status changes; and the VLAN management equipment receives the advice and refers to the information contained in the advice to thereby identify the managed server and the connection port of a network switch, and configures a virtual network belonging to the identified port of the network switch. The method alleviates the task of reconfiguration associated with the adding or deleting of servers.

Virtual network management method, virtual network management program, virtual network management system, and virtual network means

The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation and management of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitable network services, for example. In representative embodiments, techniques for constructing integrated network and storage services are provided. In a specific embodiment, the service comprises of three major service components: virtual private networks (VPN), application servers and storage area networks (SAN). Each of these service components has its own customer identification information, such as VPN identifier for VPN services, process identifier for application servers and logical unit number (LUN) for storage devices.

Integrated service management system for remote customer support

A set of integrated management tools for managing network elements and storage elements within a computer system is provided. The set of integrated management tools includes a SNMP manager module, a management map creation module, a storage network topology information creation module, an IP storage configuration module, a FC configuration module, a RAID configuration module, and a HBA configuration module. In one exemplary aspect, these modules are deployed in a distributed manner within a networked system having a number of nodes. Each node includes an IP server farm and a storage sub-system or network, such as, a SAN. Some of the nodes respectively include a local storage management (LSM) server. Some of the modules within the set of integrated management tools reside on the LSM server. For example, the SNMP manager module, portions of the management map creation module, the storage network topology information creation module, the IP storage configuration module, the FC configuration module, the RAID configuration module, and the HBA configuration module may reside on the LSM server. One node within the networked system includes a global storage management (GSM) server. Portions of the management map creation module resides on the GSM server. The GSM server communicates with the various LSM servers to facilitate control and management of the various nodes within the networked system.

Integrated topology management method for storage and IP networks

A job network setup method in a job management system which controls execution of jobs according to a set job network and which allows setup for data transfer from a preceding job to a succeeding job comprises enabling specifying such that data can be transferred from the preceding job to the succeeding job by linking a standard output of the preceding job to a standard input of the succeeding job when setting the succeeding job in setup of the job network.

Job network setup method, job network execution method, job management system, management terminal and program

The disclosed is a method and system for storing a stencil for a job definition statement and data prescribing a user interface for job definition statement setup, generating data for executing a process for generating a job definition statement based on the contents set by a user via the user interface in accordance with the stencil for the job definition statement and the data prescribing the user interface for job definition statement setup, and generating a job definition statement by executing the process in accordance with the generated data.

Method and system for job management

A computer has a table for managing a relationship between classes under which data to be processed unique to each of at least one first application program is classified according to a function/attribute thereof, and processes assigned to each class and each capable of being executed by a second application program. The table manages a relationship between said process and said second application program that executes said process. An in-context launching managing method comprises: when one of said data is selected, specifying the class to which said selected data belongs; extracting at least one process that is assigned to said specified class, creating a process list including the extracted process, and displaying said created process list; when one of said process is selected from said process list, accepting said selected process; and specifying the second application program related to said accepted process, and starting said specified second application program.

In-context launch management method, system therefor, and computer-readable storage medium

Techniques for creation, operation, management, and access control of network-based storage services are described. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitable network services, for example. In representative embodiments, techniques for constructing integrated network and storage services are provided. In a specific embodiment, the service comprises of three major service components: virtual private networks (VPN), applications servers and storage area networks (SAN). Each of these service components has its own customer identification information, such as VPN identifier for VPN services, process identifier for application servers and logical unit number (LUN) for storage devices.

A session for a mobile station is established by finding a route and determining the availability of resources on the route. Thereafter, active per-hop behaviors (PHB's) are distributed to ports along the route while inactive PHB's are distributed to ports near the route. The active and inactive PHB's provide information on how to route, transport, and process packets belonging to a session. In one embodiment, each of the PHB's indicates a priority level, forwarding port number, rules for discarding packets, rules for sending packets, etc. The packets are transported from one port to another in accordance with the active PHB's, thereby guaranteeing a level of quality of service (QoS). When the mobile station moves to a new location and changes the route, inactive PHB's are activated on the new route. This not only allows mobile stations to communicate at a certain level of QoS even after a move, but also minimizes the delay resulting from the move.

Establishing a route with a level of quality of service in a mobile network

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Shigeru Miyake