Patent ID: 7849176

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an indication of a selected type of display page for viewing information associated with a respective storage area network resource; identifying, based on the selected type of display page, a message data structure for displaying a respective message associated with the selected type of display page; utilizing an identifier value associated with the message data structure to identify if message data is available for populating the message data structure; in response to detecting a presence of the message data based on the identifier value, populating a respective message format as specified by the message data structure to produce the respective message associated with the selected type of display page; wherein identifying the message data structure comprises searching multiple message data structures for a reference value, presence of the reference value in the message data structure indicating that the message data structure is pertinent for displaying messages associated with the selected type of display page; wherein utilizing the identifier value comprises obtaining the identifier value from the message data structure, the identifier value indicating a particular resource incompatibility rule that generated the message data; and wherein detecting the presence of the message data comprises detecting that the message data includes the identifier value.