Patent ID: 6519679
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A storage device configuration manager for a computer system including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and at least one storage device coupled to the processor, at least a portion of the storage device configuration manager being software executable on the processor and comprising:a user interface operable to allow a user to perform at least one of: creating a storage policy, selecting a storage policy, modifying a storage policy, deleting a storage policy, loading a storage policy into the memory, displaying contents of a storage policy, and causing a storage policy to be executed; a policy engine operable to execute at least one command based on information from a storage policy, the at least one command for configuring the at least one storage device for operation; a parser operable to extract the information from a storage policy and provide it to the policy engine; and a host-based storage device controller at least partially executable on the processor and operable to execute at least a portion of the policy engine.