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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2013
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srikumar Natarajan, Cary, NC (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of managing event tracking includes a tracking registry. The tracking registry includes a memory for storing tracking entries, a tracking entry hierarchy, and a registry interface configured to receive requests from a plurality of modules. The tracking registry opens a tracking entry based on a registry request received from a first module of the plurality of modules, and being associated with a first operation being handled by the first module and including a parent identifier of a parent tracking entry of the tracking entry, updates the tracking entry hierarchy based on the parent identifier, stores the first tracking entry in the memory, and closes the tracking entry based on an entry closing request received from a second module of the plurality of modules and being associated with completion of a second operation being handled by the second module. The second operation performs processing associated with completion of the first operation.