Systems and apparatus for managing a storage device address
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAlexandre Lenart, Steven Maddocks, Gregory Turpin
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Abstract
A storage device is communicatively coupled to a management station and comprises an interface manager to send a notification to the management station when a network address of the storage device is changed to a new address. The management station retains information on the network address of the storage device and, upon receipt of a notification, reestablishes a connection to the storage device using the new address. Related methods, and components of the system, are also disclosed.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a management station;
- a storage device that is communicatively coupled to the management station, said storage device comprising an interface manager to send a notification to the management station when a network address of the storage device is changed to a new network address;
- a client that accesses storage of the storage device by sending device control requests over an Internet Protocol (IP) network through the management station to the storage device;
- and
- said management station executing on a server that is separate from the client and the storage device and retaining information on the new network address of said storage device, sending the new network address to the client and, upon receipt of said notification, the client reestablishing a connection to the storage device using the new network address.
A system, comprising:
- plural client computers;
- a web server that serves pages of graphical user interface (GUI) over a network to the plural client computers;
- a storage device including an event server that receives and processes management requests from the plural client computers and including an event client that notifies the web server of a change in an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the storage device;
- and
- wherein the web server receives a new IP address from the storage device and transmits the new IP address over the network to the plural client computers, and the plural client computers transmit the management requests through the web server to the storage device by re-establishing a connection with storage device using the new IP address.
At least one machine-readable medium, having stored thereon sequences of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform the actions of:
- receiving over a network at a server a notification of a new Internet Protocol (IP) address from a storage device after an IP address of the storage device changes;
- storing the new IP address in the server that is separate from the storage device;
- re-establishing a connection between the server and the storage device using the new IP address;
- and
- providing the new IP address from the server to a remote client to notify the remote client that the IP address of the storage device changed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.