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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Duane Mark Baldwin, Mantorville, MN (US);
James Horan Carey, Acton, MA (US);
Sean P. Cudmore, Upton, MA (US);
Irfan Asif Habib, Union City, CA (US);
Raymond M. LI, Oakland, CA (US);
William Allen Medlyn, Rochester, MN (US);
David Lynn Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Duane Mark Baldwin, Mantorville, MN (US);
James Horan Carey, Acton, MA (US);
Sean P. Cudmore, Upton, MA (US);
Irfan Asif Habib, Union City, CA (US);
Raymond M. Li, Oakland, CA (US);
William Allen Medlyn, Rochester, MN (US);
David Lynn Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage area network ('SAN') includes one or more digital data processors that are coupled for communication with one or more storage devices (e.g., LUNs) over an interconnect. The improvement provides a mechanism for hierarchically displaying, e.g., on the administrator console or other output device, portions of the SAN topology. It includes a process that generates for application to the output device a plurality of graphical object that represent 'segments' of the SAN and/or components of the SAN, along with the interconnections between them. The process selectively responds to operator/administrator selection of any of the graphical objects that represent a segment by regenerating the display to depict the interconnected segments and/or components that make up that segment.