Method and apparatus for configuration management of computer system

No: 7484238
Application no: 10868901
Filed date: 2004-06-17
Issue date: 2009-01-27
Kind: B2
Claims: 8
Drawing sheets: 16
Abstract: A management computer collects, from a storage subsystem via a management network, path definition information including the contents of a security setting made to a path accessible to a volume in the storage subsystem, and when the volume in the storage subsystem is an original volume having a replica volume, replica definition information of the original volume. Based on the replica configuration information thus collected from the storage subsystem, the replica relationship between the volumes is to be grasped. Then, based on the path definition information also collected from the storage subsystem, the contents of the path security setting are verified for the volumes under the same replica relationship, and the verification result is output. In such a structure, consistency verification can be easily done for the security setting of the original and replica volumes.
Inventors:
	Yamamoto Masayuki  (12)
	Mimatsu Yasuyuki  (6)
	Kaneda Yasunori  (12)
Primary examiner: Song Hosuk
Agents:
	Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, PC (ORG)  (171)
Assignees:
	Hitachi, Ltd. (ORG)  (15680)
References:
	5991771 - Transaction synchronization in a disconnectable computer and network
	6636981 - Method and system for end-to-end problem determination and fault isolation for storage area networks
	7340505 - Content storage and replication in a managed internet content storage environment