Software application domain and storage domain management process and method

• US 20040064543A1
• Filed: 09/16/2002
• Published: 04/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Ashutosh, Ashutosh, Chang, David Fu-Tien
• Application Number:
  US10/244,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20040064543A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0635 by changing the path, e.g. traffic rerouting, path reconfiguration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A system monitoring process for monitoring data flow includes an application level agent process that collects configuration data from a software application, the configuration data represents configuration dependencies between the software application and a storage system, and a storage system level agent process that collects configuration data from the storage system, the configuration data represents the configuration dependencies between the software application and the storage system.

Claims

1. A system monitoring process for monitoring data flow comprises:

an application level agent process that collects configuration data from a software application, the configuration data represents configuration dependencies between the software application and a storage system; and

a storage system level agent process that collects configuration data from the storage system, the configuration data represents the configuration dependencies between the software application and the storage system.

2. The system monitoring process of claim 1 further comprises:

an operating system level agent process for collecting configuration data from an operating system, the configuration data represents configuration dependencies between the operating system and the storage system.

3. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the storage system level agent process collects configuration data that represents configuration dependencies between components of the storage system.

4. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the configuration dependencies between the software application and the storage system includes a software data path.

5. The system monitoring process of claim 3 wherein the configuration dependencies between components of the storage system includes a physical data path.

6. The system monitoring process of claim 3 wherein the configuration dependencies between components of the storage system includes a logical data path.

7. The system monitoring process of claim 1 further comprises:

a mapping process for mapping the configuration dependencies between the software application and the storage system; and

a visualization process for disseminating the mapped configuration dependencies to a user.

8. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the storage system includes a host server.

9. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the storage system includes a switch.

10. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the storage system includes a storage device.

11. The system monitoring process of claim 1 wherein the storage system level agent process collects configuration data from a table stored in the storage system.

12. A method for providing monitoring of data flow in resources of an enterprise comprises:

collecting configuration data from a software application that is a first resource of the enterprise, the configuration data represents configuration dependencies between the software application and a storage system that is a second resource of the enterprise;

collecting configuration data from the storage system, the configuration data represents the configuration dependencies between the software application and the storage system;

mapping the configuration dependencies from the software application and the storage system; and

disseminating the mapped configuration dependencies to a user.