Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Multiple network interconnecting
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-04
2006-07-04
Follansbee, John (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Multiple network interconnecting
C709S230000, C709S250000, C715S734000, C715S735000, C715S736000, C707S793000, C711S001000, C711S002000, C711S003000, C711S004000, C711S005000, C711S100000, C711S111000, C711S148000, C711S170000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07072986
ABSTRACT:
A management display method according to each type of interfaces and devices is provided in an environment where host computers are interconnected with storage apparatuses through plural types of interfaces. The management host computer includes a display apparatus and allows a user to select a physical view for displaying a physical topology between each host and storage subsystems or a logical view for displaying a connecting relation between the devices of the storage subsystem and each host computer. The management host computer operates to collect the information of the Fibre channel interface and the Ethernet interface and the information about an access limitation of each device, included in each host computer and storage subsystem and then to display the connecting relation according to the display method (view) selected by the user, based on the collected information.
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Kitamura Manabu
Takamoto Ken-ichi
Follansbee John
Hitachi , Ltd.
Patel Ashok B.
Townsend and Townsend / and Crew LLP
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