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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
James Edward Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Francois Gauvin, Salem, MA (US);
Sheldon Lowenthal, Lexington, MA (US);
James Edward Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Francois Gauvin, Salem, MA (US);
Sheldon Lowenthal, Lexington, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A software process receives a command initiating creation of a zone naming policy for automatically generating zone names in a storage area network. During creation of a zone naming policy, the software process receives selection of one or more format elements to be used in the zone naming policy. The one or more format elements each identify which corresponding at least one type of characteristic associated with a given zone in the storage area network shall be used to automatically generate a respective zone name for the given zone. For example, the format elements in a zone policy may identify how to generate a respective zone name using identifiers associated with resources associated with the zone. Accordingly, a network manager can create a zone naming policy for automatically generating zone names in a storage area network rather than having to manually create zone names for each created zone.