Patent ID: 7549003
Filing Date: 2009-06-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A managing system for managing routing of data in a distributed computing system, comprising: a mechanism for determining a physical tree indicative of a physical configuration of the distributed computing system; a mechanism for creating a virtual tree from the physical tree by copying the physical tree, wherein a configuration of the virtual tree is a same configuration as the physical configuration; a modification enabling mechanism for enabling modification of the virtual tree to change an association between at least one source device and at least one target device in the virtual tree to form a modified virtual tree; and a validating mechanism for validating the changed association between the at least one source device and the at least one target device in the modified virtual tree to enable routing of data from the at least one source device to the at least one target device, wherein the changed association in the modified virtual tree must be validated to allow access between the at least one source device and the at least one target device.