Patent ID: 7860898
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data storage system comprising: an active element manager component used to perform data storage management operations for a data storage system, wherein said data storage management operations include a first operation to provision storage of the data storage system for data of an application; and a feed aggregator for aggregating feed items from one or more feeds, each of said one or more feed items being associated with one of said feeds and indicating a publication notification for data associated with said one feed, said one or more feeds including a first feed provided by the data storage system about events occurring on the data storage system, wherein said first feed provides a first feed item regarding status of the data storage system in response to performing said first operation to provision storage, wherein said first feed item is processed by said data storage system in accordance with one or more criteria included in one or more filters and each of said one or more filters is one of an override filter, a user-specified filter, and a default filter.