Patent ID: 8082362
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a test module that is connected to a clustered system of nodes comprising at least one processor and operatively interconnected to service data access requests, wherein a data container is accessible through a first node that directly manages the data container, and wherein the data container is accessible through a second node that does not directly manage the data container and that is coupled to the first node that directly manages the data container; establishing local access from the test module to the data container through the first node that directly manages the data container; establishing remote access from the test module to the data container through the second node that does not directly manage the data container and that is coupled to the first node that directly manages the data container; identifying the data container and a desired type of access to the data container to verify path connections corresponding to the desired type of access to the data container, wherein the desired type of access comprises one of the local access from the test module to the data container through the first node that directly manages the data container, and the remote access from the test module to the data container through the second node that does not directly manage the data container and that is coupled to the first node that directly manages the data container; obtaining by a data path selection module, in response to identifying the data container and the desired type of access, a set of configuration information regarding each node of the clustered system by sending appropriate commands to each of the nodes of the clustered system to obtain the configuration information from their respective modules; selecting by the data path selection module, by utilizing the obtained set of configuration information, a data path to the data container according to the desired type of access, wherein network address associated with the second node that is remote from the first node that directly manages the data container is obtained if the selection is remote access; forwarding by the data path selection module, the selected data path to the test module; and verifying, by the test module, data path connections associated with the selected data path to the data container according to the desired type of access.