Patent ID: 7996377
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for performing a quarantine and recovery of inaccessible data with a Common Information Model (CIM) agent in a storage system, comprising: providing a CIM agent to access a CIM dataset within a storage system, the CIM agent including a storage service managing data within a subset of the CIM dataset; requesting access, with a first request through the CIM agent, to the data managed by the storage service, wherein the data managed by the storage service is inaccessible by the CIM agent; quarantining the storage service within the CIM dataset, including: querying the storage service at a predefined interval to determine if the data in the storage service is accessible by the CIM agent; and removing the quarantine of the storage service within the CIM dataset responsive to determining that the data in the storage service is accessible, including: