US 8,751,698 B1 · Storage path management host agent

Abstract

In large complex multi-path storage environments, knowing there is a problem is extremely valuable. Example embodiments of the present invention include a management framework that provides an easy to use and read graphical perspective that allows analysis of faults in a multi-path storage environment. The architecture is not only responsive, scalable, and robust, but also provides “middleware” services to a broad spectrum of enterprise management applications whose domains may extend beyond storage path management. The management framework includes a consolidator that, along with an agent on the hosts, supports an administrator in: collecting storage path information from hosts; summarizing, aggregating, filtering, and reformatting storage path information to serve enterprise management needs and policies; forwarding an alert regarding storage path information to interested managers; routing storage path management commands from managers to hosts; and reporting command completion status from the host back to the requesting manager.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving a plurality of storage path management information items, including storage path management events and storage path resource information, having respective storage path management information types at an agent operating on a host in a multi-pathing environment;
creating at the agent an alert regarding received storage path management information items having a particular storage path management information type;
and
distributing the alert from the agent to management entities in the multi-pathing environment configured to receive alerts regarding storage path management information items having the particular storage path management information type.

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A computer-program product including a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer-program code that, when executed on a processor of a computer, cause the computer to distribute an alert according to storage path information, the computer-program product comprising:

computer program code for receiving a plurality of storage path management information items, including storage path management events and storage path resource information, having a respective storage path information types at an agent operating on a host in a multi-pathing environment;
computer program code for creating at the agent an alert regarding received storage path management information items having a particular storage path management information type;
and
computer program code for distributing the alert from the agent to management entities in the multi-pathing environment configured to receive alerts regarding storage path management information items having the particular storage path management information type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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