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Storage area network methods and apparatus for topology rendering

  • US 20030167327A1
  • Filed: 10/05/2001
  • Published: 09/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a storage area network (“

  • SAN”

    ) of the type including one or more digital data processors coupled for communication with one or more storage devices over an interconnect, the digital data processors and storage devices collectively being referred to as “

    components,”

    the improvement for effecting display on an output device of at least a portion of a topology of the SAN, the improvement comprising a process that is coupled to the output device and that generates for application thereto signals for effecting display thereon of a plurality of graphical objects, a first of which represents a first segment of the SAN, a second of which represents any of a second segment of the SAN or first component of the SAN, and a third of which represents at least a portion of the interconnect supporting communications between any of the segments and component represented by the first and second graphical objects, where a segment of the SAN comprises a plurality of components coupled for communication by the interconnect, the process selectively responding to operator selection of any of the first and second graphical objects representing a segment of the SAN by generating signals for application to the output device for effecting display thereon of one or more graphical objects representing any of segments and components making up that segment.

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