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US 2003/0195953 A1Published application
Method and system for displaying the configuration of storage network
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMasao Suzuki, Takaki Kuroda
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AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMasao Suzuki, Takaki Kuroda
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It is an object of the present invention to provide the function for displaying the configuration of storages not in a form peculiar to a storage system but in a more general purpose system. The present invention provides a method and system for displaying the configuration of a storage network, wherein each piece of apparatus constituting the storage network is connected to a control network different from the storage network connecting the pieces of apparatus to one another, and configuration information about each piece of apparatus is acquired using the control network, and a screen for displaying the configuration of the storage network is generated and displayed based on the acquired configuration information.
A method for displaying the configuration of a storage network, comprising the steps of:
A method for displaying the configuration of a storage network, comprising the steps of:
A method for displaying the configuration of a storage network, comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium, comprising:
A storage medium storing a configuration display program for displaying the configuration of a storage network, said configuration display program including the steps of:
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In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for…
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Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
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The present invention relates to a method and system for displaying the configuration of storages on an IP network administration system.
In recent years, the demand for introduction of storage administration systems is increased with the demand for storage systems increasing due to the gigantism of corporate databases. As a storage system, SAN (Storage Area Network) that is a system in which storages are connected through a network is known. In a typical SAN, storages are connected through fiber channel switches. Some SANs have a storage view display function. This function is to display on a screen what storages have been connected to the SAN.
The aforementioned storage view display function in SAN is to collect information through an interface peculiar to each storage system and display the collected information. That is, the function is an additional function provided not in common to companies providing storage systems but uniquely by a company providing the storage system in question. Therefore, the function can simply display information that can be collected only through the peculiar interface. Accordingly, the configuration of connected storage systems as a whole, for example, concerning what disc has been connected to which switch, cannot be known.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a storage network system to which a method for displaying the configuration of storages according to the present invention is applied;
FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams showing the schematic configurations of an administration server and an administration client respectively;
FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of a screen image in a fabric window;
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an example of a storage network system to which a method for displaying the configuration of storages according to the present invention is applied. This system includes host computers (hereinafter referred to as “hosts”) 101, 102 and 103, fiber channel switches (hereinafter referred to as “switches”) 111, 112, 113 and 114, disk units (storages) 121, 122 and 123, an administration server 131, and an administration client 132. A SAN is constituted by the switches 111, 112, 113 and 114 and the disk units 121, 122 and 123.
The hosts 101, 102 and 103 are connected to the switches 111 and 112 through SCSI lines 141 to 146. The switches 111 and 112 are connected to the switches 113 and 114 through fiber channels 151 to 154 while the switches 113 and 114 are connected to the disk units 121, 122 and 123 through fiber channels 161 to 166. In addition, each of these pieces of apparatus is connected to a network designated by the broken line 171. The protocol of the network 171 is TCP/IP. The TCP/IP network 171 is provided to control the configuration or the like of each piece of apparatus or to detect a failure of each piece of apparatus. For example, a group of commands for control using Telnet has been defined for each switch so as to control the switch. In this embodiment, the TCP/IP network 171 is used to acquire configuration information of the storage network and display the acquired configuration information.