US 2011/0219119 A1Published application

Access right managing method for accessing multiple programs

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsKoichi Murayama, Yuichi Yagawa

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Abstract

Provided is an access right managing method for a resource of a storage system, in which a management computer stores access right definition information of the resource, and resource correspondence information including information on a management program which manages another resource related to the resource managed by the management program. In case of which receiving an updating request of an access right of the resource, the management computer updates an access right based on the updating request of the access right, selects a management program of the resource whose access right is requested to be updated based on the resource correspondence information, transmits an updating request of an access right for a relative resource to a management computer which executes the selected management program, and in case of which the access right updating request of the related resource is received, updates the access right of the relative resource.

Claims22

Dependent claims

An access right management method for use in a computer system comprising a first storage system, which includes hard disk drives configuring a first logical unit managed by a first management computer coupled to the first storage system storing first management authority information, a second storage system, which includes hard disk drives configuring a second logical unit managed by a second management computer coupled to the second storage system storing second management authority information, and a third management computer coupled to the first management computer and the second management computer, storing resource correspondence information, which third management computer manages the first logical unit and the second logical unit as storage resources via the first management computer and the second management computer, said method comprising:

the first management computer managing the first logical unit as a first management resource based on the first management authority information indicating management authorities of a plurality of administrators to the first management resource,
the second management computer managing the second logical unit as a second management resource, based on the second management authority information indicating management authorities of the plurality of administrators to the second management resource,
the third management computer managing the storage resources based on the resource correspondence information, which indicates correspondences between the storage resources including the first logical unit and the second logical unit and management computers including the first management computer and the second management computer,
the third management computer receiving a management authority update request identifying at least one certain storage resource which is one or more of the storage resources and a certain administrator which is one or more of the plurality of administrators,
the third management computer selecting one of the first management computer and the second management computer, which manages the at least one certain logical unit associated with the at least one certain storage resource, and sending an update request of a management authority of the certain administrator about the at least one certain logical unit to the one of the first management computer and the second management computer, based on the resource correspondence information, and
one of the first management computer and the second management computer, which receives the update request, updating the one of the first management authority information and the second management authority information about the at least one certain logical unit.

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An access management method for used in a computer system comprising a first storage system, which includes hard disk drives configuring a first logical unit managed by a first management computer coupled to the first storage system storing first management authority information, and a second storage system, which includes hard disk drives configuring a second logical unit managed by a second management computer coupled to the second storage system and the first management computer, which stores second management authority information, and resource correspondence information, which second management computer manages the first logical unit and the second logical unit as storage resources via the first management computer and the second management computer, said method comprising:

the first management computer managing the first logical unit as a first management resource based on the first management authority information indicating management authorities of a plurality of administrators to the first management resource,
the second management computer managing the second logical unit as a second management resource, based on the second management authority information indicating management authorities of the plurality of administrators to the second management resource,
the second management computer managing the storage resource based on the resource correspondence information, which indicates correspondences between the storage resources including the first logical unit and the second logical unit and management computers including the first management computer and the second management computer,
the second management computer receiving management authority update request identifying at least one certain storage resource which is one or more of the storage resources and a certain administrator which is one or more of the plurality of administrators,
the second management computer selecting one of the first management computer and the second management computer, which manages the at least one certain logical unit associated with the at least one certain storage resource, and requesting update of a management authority of the certain administrator about the at least one certain logical unit to the one of the first management computer and the second management computer, based on the resource correspondence information, and
the one of the first management computer and the second management computer, which is requested, updating the one of the first management authority information and the second management authority information about the at least one certain logical unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/107,028Filed 13 May 2011
Priority: JP 2006-27674510 Oct 2006
Published: 8 Sep 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G06F 21/604
Protecting data: tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
G06F
Computing and data processing

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