Patent ID: 6996587
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for managing data volumes from a management terminal in a distributed computer system having a host computer system with at least one storage device connected to the computer system by driver software, the method comprising: (a) inserting an interface layer between the driver software and the storage device, the interface layer exporting a platform dependent API comprising a plurality of API methods are called to control data passing between the driver software and the storage device; (b) running, in the host computer system, management facade software, wherein said management facade software receives calls to platform-independent methods and generates at least one API method call to the interface layer in order to execute the platform-independent method calls; (c) running, in the host computer system, a federated bean, wherein said federated bean discovers data volumes in the storage device and generates platform-independent method calls to the management facade to control the interface layer via the plurality of API methods; and (d) controlling the federated bean to display and configure the data volumes.