公开(公告)号：US06253240B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-26

申请号：US09183647

申请日：1998-10-30

申请人： Gary Thomas Axberg ,  Duane Mark Baldwin ,  Allen Robert Heitman ,  Uma Devi Immaneni ,  Greg Knight ,  David Lynn Merbach ,  Robert Bruce Nicholson ,  William Roy Yonker

发明人： Gary Thomas Axberg ,  Duane Mark Baldwin ,  Allen Robert Heitman ,  Uma Devi Immaneni ,  Greg Knight ,  David Lynn Merbach ,  Robert Bruce Nicholson ,  William Roy Yonker

IPC分类号： G06F15173

CPC分类号： G06F8/34

摘要： A distributed storage management program manages a network comprising multiple data storage devices attached to multiple host computer systems. The management program includes a separate agent in each host, and a central manager. The agents gather data and communicate with the manager across a communications path which is independent of the storage network. The manager collates the data from different agents to produce a coherent view of the network. Preferably, each local agent actively builds an internal topological view of the network as seen by its host and collects data such as error events, which it stores in internal data structures. The manager is able to resolve gaps in the information of each agent from information provided by other agents. Preferably, the manager represents the network as a collection of objects of different classes in an object-oriented class library. This collection is graphically displayed in a logical and understandable manner to a user on a display device.

摘要翻译： 分布式存储管理程序管理包括连接到多个主机计算机系统的多个数据存储设备的网络。 管理程序在每个主机中包括一个独立的代理程序和一个中央管理器。 代理商通过独立于存储网络的通信路径收集数据并与管理器通信。 经理整理来自不同代理的数据，以产生网络的一致视图。 优选地，每个本地代理主动地构建网络的内部拓扑视图，如其主机所看到的，并且收集数据，例如其存储在内部数据结构中的错误事件。 经理能够根据其他代理商提供的信息来解决每个代理人信息的差距。 优选地，管理器将网络表示为在面向对象的类库中的不同类的对象的集合。 该集合以逻辑和可理解的方式在显示设备上以图形方式显示给用户。