Steven Scott Peters

US Patent:

8122114, Feb 21, 2012

Filed:

Oct 6, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/684472

Inventors:

Suban Krishnamoorthy - Shrewsbury MA, US
Christopher Stroberger - Worcester MA, US
Steven Peters - Shrewsbury MA, US

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709223, 709224

Abstract:

A client-server based Storage Area Network (SAN) management system provides easy to use and uniform multiple user interfaces such as web interface and windows interface to the administrators to manage the SAN consisting of various types of devices. The integrated object-oriented management agent consists of several components such as object manager, UI module, web server, user interface modules, error and status handler and device handler. The agent functionality can be dynamically expanded to handle new device types without stopping the existing agent, installing new agent and restarting it. The management system uses conglomerate methods to automatically discover SAN devices and their topology. The error and status from SAN devices are handled in a hybrid method consisting of distributed, hierarchical and centralized schemes. A simple and easy device independent user interface is provided to download firmware to various types of devices hiding complex device dependent processes from the administrator.