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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
James E. Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Alexander Dubrovsky, Westborough, MA (US);
Francois Gauvin, Salem, MA (US);
Freda Weinbrecht, Dracut, MA (US);
James E. Lavallee, Boylston, MA (US);
Alexander Dubrovsky, Westborough, MA (US);
Francois Gauvin, Salem, MA (US);
Freda Weinbrecht, Dracut, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for displaying graphically interconnected network fabrics on a graphical user interface. The method disclosed herein is a view manager that identifies fabrics (e.g., storage area networks) in a network system and then displays graphical representations of the fabrics within a graphical user interface. In this manner, the fabric representations are displayed in respective regions of the graphical user interface such that the pixels of each fabric representation do not overlap. Graphical interconnections are displayed between network fabrics to represent the relationship and connectivity between the fabrics. Additionally, the view manager displays the physical and virtual components or resources (e.g., host computers, switch devices, storage devices) that make up the network fabrics as graphical objects within the fabric representations. In order to show the relationship and connectivity between the resource objects, the view manager also displays graphical interconnections that flow between the resources.