Patent ID: 7617271
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A management system for managing resources to be provided to a plurality of clients, the resources including a router, a server, and a plurality of storage volumes, the management system comprising: a network management system for storing network configuration information and for managing the router based on the network configuration information, the network configuration information including a relationship between IP addresses of the clients and VLAN-IDs, the router being adapted to assign a VLAN-ID to a packet having a corresponding IP address when sending the packet from one of the clients to the server; a server management system for storing server configuration information and for managing the server based on the server configuration information, the server configuration information including a relationship between the VLAN-IDs, server IDs and interface IDs to access at least one of the plurality of storage volumes; a storage management system for storing storage configuration information and for managing the plurality of storage volumes based on the storage configuration information, the storage configuration information including a relationship between the interface IDs and at least one of the plurality of storage volumes to be accessed, the plurality of storage volumes being operable to be access-controlled by using the interface IDs; and an integrated management system coupled communicatively to the network management system, the server management system and the storage management system, the integrated management system adapted to manage the network configuration information, the server configuration information and the storage configuration information, wherein the integrated management system is adapted to determine configuration changes of the resources that need to be made in order to operate service with reference to the network configuration information, the server configuration information and the storage configuration information, so that the integrated management system can manage configuration of the resources on per-service basis by communicating with the different per-resource-type management systems, wherein the per-resource-type management systems include the network management system, the server management system and the storage management system; and wherein the managing the router by the network management system, the managing the server by the server managing system and the managing the volumes are performed individually.