Patent ID: 7124139
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of managing faults in a storage system having a job management function for identifying a job in a computer system having a computing device for executing jobs, a storage device including a plurality of physical disk units, and a computer for managing faults, the job is affected by a fault at a location existing on a data mapping path, said data mapping path comprising a particular table on a database accessed by a particular job, a file for storing said table, a logical volume for storing said file, and said physical disk units for distributively storing data on said volume, based on data mapping information related to said data mapping path, said data mapping information including an identifier of an interface situated on said data mapping path for interfacing one device to another, said method comprising the steps of: collecting part of said data mapping information from each of a plurality of devices including said computing device and said storage device which hold corresponding information on said data mapping path from said job to said physical disk units through said table, said file, and said volume; integrating said data mapping information on each job of said jobs, separately, for storage in a management table; and identifying a job affected by a fault with reference to said management table for displaying the affected job upon receipt of a fault report about any of said physical disk units from said storage device.