Patent ID: 7072787
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for analyzing test data obtained from log files of a data storage system having: a plurality of director printed circuit boards, each one of the director boards having thereon a plurality of CPUs; and a memory printed circuit board, such director printed circuit boards and memory printed circuit board being interconnected through a backplane, each one of the director printed circuit boards and the memory printed circuit board being plugged into a different slot of such backplane, such method comprising: testing each one of the CPUs on each one of the plurality of director printed circuit boards during a first period of time; collecting results from such tests in a predetermined format to provide the log files subsequently processing the collected log files to present the results of the tests on a display of a computer in a different format, such different format comprising lines of information on the computer display, each one of the lines of information identifying a corresponding one of the CPUs and indicating whether such corresponding one of the plurality of CPUs passed or failed the testing thereof; and wherein the processing includes presenting the results of the tests as a second set of lines of information on a different view of the computer display during a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time, the second set of lines of information identifying each one of the CPUs and the operating states thereof when the plurality of CPUs were tested and operated during a selected, common, period of time, such common period of time being during the first period of time.