Emc Corporation

Viren Pherwani

Amanuel Ronen Artzi

Christopher Chaulk

Serge Marokhovsky

William F Kuhhirte

Paul Timmins

Anuradha Shivnath

Ron Even

A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing an analysis on a Storage Area Network (SAN) system, containing a plurality of components, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components and the relationship among the components, wherein the representation comprises the steps of creating at least one non-specific representation of the selected components and creating at least one non-specification representation of relations along which the events propagate amongst the selected components, providing a mapping between a plurality events and a plurality of observable events occurring among the components, wherein the mapping is represented as a value associating each event with each observable event, and performing the system analysis based on the mapping of events and observable events.

Method and apparatus for representing, managing, analyzing and problem reporting in storage networks

A storage area network (SAN) management application generates device allocation reports displaying foundation variables, device specific parameters, and computed, derived fields for different types of storage arrays, without burdening the allocation report with extraneous parameters through the use of a layout indicative of the information included on the report, providing a streamlined and seamless allocation report. The SAN management application defines a layout indicative of the foundation variables, device attributes, and derived fields requested in an allocation report. The user selected layout indicates the requested allocation parameters for a report, indicative of the foundation variable, device attributes, and derived fields, and also indicates the device usage metrics for computing the derived fields from the foundation variables and device attributes. In this manner, a SAN operator requests an allocation report indicative of only the information sought, and need not correlate multiple reports or manually synthesize report output for determining derived fields.

System and methods for reporting device allocation

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