Patent ID: 9740568
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A machine implemented method, comprising: interfacing by a management device with a plurality of management layers that communicate with a plurality of application plugins executed by a plurality of computing devices, where each application plugin is associated with an application for providing storage services for stored objects managed by a storage system for the plurality of applications; for managing the plurality of computing devices presenting selectable options for adding an application plugin for a computing device, configuring the application plugin, migrating the application plugin from one location to another and placing the computing device in a maintenance mode; and providing a summary for a plurality of storage service operations including backups, clones, restore operations, cloning operations and a data protection summary showing which stored objects are unprotected, protected, and not backed up; wherein a selectable option is provided for placing a dataset associated with a storage service operation in a maintenance mode such that any storage service operation is stalled until the maintenance node is de-selected.