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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2008
Pallavi Vyankatesh Galgali, Maharashtra, IN;
Sandeep Gopisetty, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Amit Sunil Modi, Pune, IN;
Ramani Ranjan Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
Pallavi Vyankatesh Galgali, Maharashtra, IN;
Sandeep Gopisetty, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Amit Sunil Modi, Pune, IN;
Ramani Ranjan Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for simulating a storage area network including a set of correlated devices, each of the devices having a device agent. The method comprises the step of forming a set of simulation agents representing said device agents, including the steps of, (i) for each of the simulation agents, obtaining a set of agent profiles, and storing said agent profiles in a data store, and (ii) obtaining files describing class definitions for the simulation agents, and storing said files in the data store. With this information and data, a Visual Workbench is used to generate a display of said simulation agents. The preferred embodiment provides a framework and implementation that simulates the CIM agent of any SAN device. Each individual device CIM agent can be simulated in this framework based on the specification defined in an XML file and/or through snapshot mechanism.