System and method for communication of data between a host and an administration system
First Claim
1. A method for the communication of data between at least one host system and a storage management system, the method comprising:
- defining structure for data to be transported from said at least one host system to said storage management system using a markup language; and
transporting said defined data from said at least one host system to said storage management system via a remote procedure call.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed towards a system and method for the communication of computer data between at least one host and an administration system (preferably, a storage management system). In at least one embodiment, discovery data is gathered by one or more host systems (preferably by an agent residing on each of these host systems) and the structure(s) of such data is(are) defined using a markup language (preferably XML). In at least one embodiment, the data is then transported from the host systems to the storage management system via a remote procedure call (preferably an operating system independent remote procedure call such as Java RMI).
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25 Claims
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1. A method for the communication of data between at least one host system and a storage management system, the method comprising:
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defining structure for data to be transported from said at least one host system to said storage management system using a markup language; and
transporting said defined data from said at least one host system to said storage management system via a remote procedure call. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24)
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19. A system for the monitoring and management of storage-related devices of an enterprise environment, said system comprising:
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means for obtaining discovery information from at least one storage-related device of said enterprise environment;
means for defining structure of said obtained information using a markup language; and
means for transporting said obtained information from said defining means for further processing.
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23. A system for the monitoring and management of storage-related devices of an enterprise environment, said system comprising:
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at least one host system;
at least one host agent process, wherein each of said at least one host agent process resides on a respective host system of said at least one host system; and
a storage management system, wherein said storage management system is communicatively coupled to said at least one host system;
wherein at least one of said at least one host agent process is operable to define device discovery information in a markup language format and transport said formatted discovery information to said storage management system via a remote procedure call.
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25. The system of 23, wherein said remote procedure call is Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
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