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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Todd R. Gill, Medford, MA (US);
James A. Perreault, Concord, MA (US);
John S. Neil, Scituate, MA (US);
Vinay S. Sachdev, Dracut, MA (US);
Harold M. Sandstrom, Belmont, MA (US);
Bradley A. Bowlin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Brion E. Stultz, Harrisville, RI (US);
Todd R. Gill, Medford, MA (US);
James A. Perreault, Concord, MA (US);
John S. Neil, Scituate, MA (US);
Vinay S. Sachdev, Dracut, MA (US);
Harold M. Sandstrom, Belmont, MA (US);
Bradley A. Bowlin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Brion E. Stultz, Harrisville, RI (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In large complex multi-path storage environments, knowing there is a problem is extremely valuable. Example embodiments of the present invention include a management framework that provides an easy to use and read graphical perspective that allows analysis of faults in a multi-path storage environment. The architecture is not only responsive, scalable, and robust, but also provides 'middleware' services to a broad spectrum of enterprise management applications whose domains may extend beyond storage path management. The management framework includes a consolidator that, along with an agent on the hosts, supports an administrator in: collecting storage path information from hosts; summarizing, aggregating, filtering, and reformatting storage path information to serve enterprise management needs and policies; forwarding an alert regarding storage path information to interested managers; routing storage path management commands from managers to hosts; and reporting command completion status from the host back to the requesting manager.