Automatically Adjusting Scheduled Inventory of Switched Fabrics
AssigneeIBM Corporation
InventorsDavid Lynn Merbach, Kevin Joseph Webster, Li Zhou
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Abstract
A mechanism is provided in a storage management application that automatically reconfigures agents and scheduled probes of agents in cases where the agents do not automatically reconfigure themselves to manage a newly formed fabric after fragment segmentation. The solution does not burden the storage administrator to reconfigure agents or to reconfigure regularly scheduled inventory probes through storage management applications.
Claims20
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:
- detect, in a storage management application, a change in a first fabric comprising a first plurality of switches, wherein the change results in a new fabric;
- update a scheduled probe job definition to manage the new fabric;
- and
- configure a fabric agent to manage the new fabric.
A storage management apparatus in a storage area network, comprising:
- a fabric agent;
- a user interface that is configured to allow a user to schedule a regular probe of a first fabric comprising a first plurality of switches through the fabric agent;
- a discover mechanism that is configured to access the fabric agent to discover managed fabrics and their switches;
- a monitor that is configured to detect when a change to the first fabric occurs, wherein the change results in a new fabric;
- an agent configuration component that is configured to configure the fabric agent to manage the new fabric;
- a probe mechanism that is configured to probe the first fabric through the fabric agent on schedule;
- and
- a scheduler that is configured to trigger the probe mechanism to probe the fabric through the fabric agent.
A method for automatically adjusting scheduled probes of fabrics, the method comprising:
- monitoring, by a fabric agent, a first fabric comprising a first plurality of switches;
- detecting, in a storage management application, a change in the fabric, wherein the change results in a new fabric;
- updating a scheduled probe job definition to manage the new fabric;
- and
- configuring the fabric agent to manage the new fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.