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US 6,785,742 B1Granted
SCSI enclosure services
AssigneeBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.
InventorsKha Sin Teow, Paul Ramsay
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AssigneeBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.
InventorsKha Sin Teow, Paul Ramsay
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A method and system for a management station managing a plurality of routing devices within a fabric. In one embodiment, this management of routing devices comprising the fabric occurs in the Storage Area Network environment. Use is made of a protocol which already exists in a Storage Area Network environment, such as the Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (“FCP”, for managing routing devices within a fabric. Each routing device comprising the fabric is assigned a logical unit number, which, in one embodiment, is based on the domain identifiers of each routing device. Further, the routing device to which the management station is physically is also labeled as LUN 0, and serves as the logical fabric SCSI Enclosure Services controller unit. The fabric interacts with the management station as though the fabric were a logical fabric SCSI Enclosure Services device coupled to a plurality of logical fabric SCSI Enclosure Services units. The management station is thus able to obtain information about, and manage, any of the routing devices comprising the fabric.
A network routing device for use in a fabric, the routing device comprising:
A network fabric for connecting to a host device and a storage device, the fabric comprising:
A network comprising:
A method for managing at least two routing devices forming a network fabric as a logical unit, the fabric connecting a host and a storage unit, the method comprising:
A network routing device for use in a fabric with another network routing device, the routing device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.