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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Simon Jensen-fellows, Acton, MA (US);
Michael D. Miles, Millis, MA (US);
Simon Jensen-Fellows, Acton, MA (US);
Michael D. Miles, Millis, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for performing diagnostics on a computer system having a plurality of physical hardware devices includes associating a logical device with a physical hardware device of the computer system. The logical device is provided with a programmatic interface that abstractly reproduces a functionality of the physical hardware device associated with the logical device and insulates the logical device from device-specific particulars needed to communicate with the physical hardware device. The logical device is associated with a translator that is capable of communicating with the physical hardware device associated with the logical device using the device-specific particulars needed to communicate with that physical hardware device.