公开(公告)号：US07430593B2

公开(公告)日：2008-09-30

申请号：US09971481

申请日：2001-10-05

申请人： Duane Mark Baldwin ,  James Horan Carey ,  Sean P. Cudmore ,  Irfan Asif Habib ,  Raymond M. Li ,  William Allen Medlyn ,  David Lynn Merbach

发明人： Duane Mark Baldwin ,  James Horan Carey ,  Sean P. Cudmore ,  Irfan Asif Habib ,  Raymond M. Li ,  William Allen Medlyn ,  David Lynn Merbach

IPC分类号： G06F15/177

CPC分类号： H04L67/1097 ,  H04L67/36

摘要： A storage area network (“SAN”) includes one or more digital data processors that are coupled for communication with one or more storage devices (e.g., LUNs) over an interconnect. The improvement provides a mechanism for hierarchically displaying, e.g., on the administrator console or other output device, portions of the SAN topology. It includes a process that generates for application to the output device a plurality of graphical object that represent “segments” of the SAN and/or components of the SAN, along with the interconnections between them. The process selectively responds to operator/administrator selection of any of the graphical objects that represent a segment by regenerating the display to depict the interconnected segments and/or components that make up that segment.

摘要翻译： 存储区域网络（“SAN”）包括一个或多个数字数据处理器，其被耦合用于通过互连与一个或多个存储设备（例如，LUN）进行通信。 该改进提供了用于在例如管理员控制台或其他输出设备上分级显示SAN拓扑的部分的机制。 它包括向应用程序生成表示SAN和/或SAN组件的“段”的多个图形对象以及它们之间的互连的过程。 该过程通过再生显示来选择代表段的任何图形对象的操作者/管理员选择，以描绘构成该段的互连段和/或组件。