System and method for assigning management responsibility for manageable entities
US7444355B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 30, 2003 |
| Grant date | Oct 28, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 27, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/06
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Storage Area Network (storage area network) management employs agents, each under the control of a common server. Determination and assignment of available agents to candidate manageable entities suffers from several deficiencies. Distributed access control information may be security sensitive. Distribution of the access data across the local storage at the manageable entities is cumbersome to track and manage. Embodiments of the invention provide assignment of agents to manageable entities from a central repository, therefore avoiding distributed sensitive information. Depending upon the type of managed entity the agent is adapted to manage, the server retrieves access data from the repository, rather than from a local initialization (.ini) file. Each agent determines which storage elements it can manage. The server correlates the information sent by each agent for each configured managed entity to generate a management correlation. The server then determines a primary agent responsible for managing each of the manageable entities.
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