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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2007
James A. Taylor, Livermore, CA (US);
Sharon A. Gavarre, Fremont, CA (US);
Faris Hindi, Mountain View, CA (US);
James A. Taylor, Livermore, CA (US);
Sharon A. Gavarre, Fremont, CA (US);
Faris Hindi, Mountain View, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing data regarding a storage system comprising storage devices is described herein. A storage management module of an operating system of the storage system may be used for servicing (e.g., monitoring or testing) storage devices according to servicing parameters. For each serviced storage device, a reporting module of the storage management module may collect storage device and storage system data upon the occurrence of predetermined events (e.g., when a storage device exhibits an error and monitoring begins, when monitoring ends, and when testing of the storage device ends). The collected data may be saved to a report file in a predetermined format and received by a program configured to automatically extract the data according to the predetermined format for use in storage device and storage system analysis and to determine modified servicing parameters used by the storage management module to service storage devices.