Determining equivalent subsets of agents to gather information for a fabric

A technology for collecting information and subsets, applied in digital transmission systems, electrical components, transmission systems, etc., can solve problems such as inability to effectively find agents, and achieve the effect of improving the probability of success, shortening the total time, and improving robustness

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-04-24
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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Although some existing techniques are able to discover network information from multiple information collection agents, the existing techniques cannot efficiently find out the minimum solution about the number of agents required, and are flawed in response failure

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[0029] Embodiments of the presently disclosed invention provide various techniques and configurations that facilitate the efficient identification and use of agents to gather information from storage area network architectures or other complex project configurations. For example, in existing SAN fabric management scenarios, multiple agents collect redundant information about the fabric. One embodiment of the presently disclosed invention functions to reduce the administrative load and reduce the amount of processing required by using a subset of agents and specifying the architecture that each of those agents should probe.

[0030] The following disclosure provides a non-limiting set of examples related to storage area networks and various fabric management techniques within such networks. Those skilled in the art will recognize that embodiments of the present invention may be used in any environment where there are agents (or similar data collection sources) that can report o...

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Techniques for identifying and selecting equivalent sets of agents with defined capabilities to perform certain actions are disclosed. Determining agents to gather information for a storage area network fabric may be performed through the use of fabric discovery operations which identify agents capable of performing various actions within the fabric. From the determined capabilities of the agents, a dynamic capability grid may be populated to assist with the generation of a list of equivalent subsets to perform the various actions. The most efficient set of agents from each equivalent subset may then be selected to perform actions, with other sets of agents in the equivalent subset available as secondary choices in case of an unexpected failure. For example, a fabric probe may be executed in a storage area network using discovered agents from a list of equivalent subsets to most efficiently accomplish network operations such as zoning and topology.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to data communication and operations that occur within storage area networks and other defined systems. One embodiment of the invention relates more particularly to managing storage area network operations through the use of proxies. Background technique [0002] Fiber Channel (FC) storage area networks (SANs) can be configured to provide network topologies with a variety of "fabrics". These fabrics typically consist of one or more Fiber Channel switches interconnecting end point devices ("nodes") to communicate over the switched network. Typical management applications for FC storage area networks use various data sources (often referred to as "agents") that can probe and report on the status of the fabric and the members of the fabric. These agents use variable Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for communication and have a range of (and possibly overlapping) capabilities in terms of both the switches ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/24H04L12/931H04L29/08
CPCH04L49/00G06F3/06H04L29/08549H04L49/555H04L49/357H04L12/2412H04L67/1097
Inventor S·巴拉德瓦加D·L·摩巴奇W·图米纳罗K·J·韦伯斯特S·伯德周礼S·帕德彼得里
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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