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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDuane Mark Baldwin, Zhengwen He, Allen Robert Heitman, Hans Hanhsia Lin, David Lynn Merbach
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A storage area network (SAN) has a plurality of components including digital data processors, e.g., hosts, coupled to a plurality of storage device. Common, platform-independent processes execute on the hosts, which can be of varied platform types, e.g., Unix™, Windows™, Solaris, and so forth. Those processes utilizes the command line interface of the host operating system to invoke platform-dependent processes on the respective hosts. The platform-dependent processes return data to the platform-independent processes, e.g., via Standard Output or Standard Error of the host operating system command line interface.
In a storage area network (SAN) having a plurality of components including one or more digital data processors in communication with one or more storage devices, the improvement comprising:
In the SAN of claim 2, the further improvement wherein each of the platform-specific processes communicates with the platform-independent process via a command line interface of its respective digital data processor operating system.
In a storage area network having one or more components including one or more digital data processors and one or more storage devices in communication with the digital data processors, the improvement comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.