Jason B Perkins

US Patent:

6854035, Feb 8, 2005

Filed:

Oct 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/971534

Inventors:

Douglas Paul Dunham - San Jose CA, US
Andrew Dunn - Oceano CA, US
Tina Lynn Dunton - San Jose CA, US
Jason Michael Perkins - Santa Clara CA, US
Ophelia K. Yip - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F012/00

US Classification:

711117, 711171

Abstract:

A storage area network (SAN), e. g. , as described above, includes a one or more hosts digital data processors, each having a file system that effects access to one or more storage devices. Each processor is associated with multiple groups from respective levels of a hierarchy, e. g. , a first processor group and a second processor group hierarchically descendant from the first processor group. A process, e. g. , executing on a manager digital data processor, includes a graphical user interface that displays the processor groups as a hierarchical tree. Along, for example, with the identities of the processor groups, nodes of the displayed tree list attributes of the policy defined for each respective group.