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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Sunil Bharadwaj, Beaverton, OR (US);
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
David L. Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin J. Webster, Lake Worth, FL (US);
LI Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunil Bharadwaj, Beaverton, OR (US);
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
David L. Merbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin J. Webster, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Li Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides techniques for updating fabric alert definitions defined for a fiber channel or other fabric-based network within a storage management system. One embodiment provides techniques for detecting fabric merges, fabric segmentations, and principal switch changes of the fabric and modifying fabric alert definitions as a result of these changes. Thus, any alert definitions scoped by fabric will remain relevant even after fabric structural changes, and duplicate and/or redundant alerts may be reduced within the storage management system. In a further embodiment, detection of fabric changes is performed by first storing relationships between fabrics and switches, and comparing the current relationships between the fabrics and the switches against the stored relationships. Upon recognition of changes within the fabrics, the fabric alert definitions may be automatically analyzed and updated.