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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2004
Daniel J. Strom, North Andover, MA (US);
Alexander Dubrovsky, Westborough, MA (US);
James E. Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Yifeng Chen, Milford, MA (US);
Daniel J. Strom, North Andover, MA (US);
Alexander Dubrovsky, Westborough, MA (US);
James E. Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Yifeng Chen, Milford, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An agent in a storage area network communicates with a management entity in the storage area network to discover a group of resources in the storage area network controlled by the management entity. In response to discovering the group of resources, the agent associates member resources (e.g., and their respective names) of the group of resources to a corresponding group identifier to which the member resources belong. The agent reports i) the corresponding group identifier and ii) the member resources of the group of resources controlled by the management entity to a management control center that assigns one of multiple agents in the storage area network to manage the group of resources based on communications with the management entity. After a step of assigning, the management control center can initiate an assigned agent to control the group of resources.