Patent ID: 8732688
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for use in updating system status, the method performed by one or more processors comprising: receiving updated information for a managed object in a data storage system; deriving, from the updated information and an existing software object having other information about the managed object, a new software object representing the managed object; determining whether a physical memory has changed in the data storage system; based on the determination, causing a new cache object to be copied from an existing cache object; based on the determination, updating the new cache object; submitting the new cache object to a merge logic, wherein the merge logic includes information describing the physical memory and logical configuration in the data storage system; and applying the merge logic to update the existing software object based on the new software object, the merge logic being capable of updating an existing full model of the data storage system from a new full model of the data storage system.