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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Jason L. Taylor, Apex, NC (US);
Abhijit Muthiyan, Cary, NC (US);
Russ Thrasher, Raleigh, NC (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A SAN (storage area network) configuration utility may be used to automatically configure a SAN management system for SAN discovery and management. The SAN configuration utility may be used to identify and verify SAN devices, device firmware, device drivers, etc. for the SAN management system, and to configure the SAN management system to support one or more previously incompatible SAN devices. In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may automatically configure the SAN management system to use only the SAN devices that are known to be compatible with the SAN management system. In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may automatically modify one or more SAN management system configuration files to support the discovered SAN devices and/or automatically modify one or more SAN devices for support by the SAN management system (e.g. by updating firmware). In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may generate one or more SAN configuration reports.