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Storage security appliance with out-of-band management capabilities

  • US 8,387,127 B1
  • Filed: 11/28/2007
  • Issued: 02/26/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • intercepting, at a data security appliance, out-of-band control traffic from a computing device directed to a data storage device, wherein the out-of-band control traffic includes a command to change a configuration of the data storage device;

    forwarding the out-of-band control traffic from the data security appliance to the data storage device;

    intercepting, at the data security appliance, a response from the data storage device that indicates the command was successfully executed; and

    reconfiguring automatically and without user interaction, by the data security appliance, a parameter of the data security appliance associated with communication with the data storage device in accordance with the command in order to conform with a new configuration of the data storage device, wherein the reconfiguring is performed as a result of intercepting the response from the data storage device.

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