Patent ID: 8224958
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: monitoring, by a server implementing a multi-appliance management application (MMA), a data storage system to collect configuration data of a plurality of storage objects in the data storage system, wherein the server includes a processor and a memory; receiving, by the MMA, a request to execute a traversal on a given storage object of the plurality of storage objects in the data storage system; prior to executing the traversal, creating by the MMA an identification of a storage resource management (SRM) path for the given storage object using at least a portion of the configuration data, wherein the MMA stores the identification of the SRM path in the server implementing the MMA, and wherein the SRM path includes an identity of a host agent that is coupled between the server implementing the MMA and the given storage object; and executing the traversal, by the MMA, on the given storage object by utilizing the identification of the SRM path.