Patent ID: 7043732

Claim:
A method for managing remote data replication from a management terminal in a distributed computer system having a primary host with a first storage device connected by a network to a secondary host with a second storage device, the method comprising: (a) running in the primary host a first Common Information Model (CIM) object manager containing a first CIM provider that can configure the first storage device for data replication; (b) running in the secondary host a second CIM object manager containing a second CIM provider that can configure the second storage device for data replication; (c) running in a management server, management facade software including a CIM client that can contact the first and the second CIM providers to control the first and the second CIM providers; (d) running in the management server a federated bean that generates method calls to the management facade software; and (e) providing data replication commands from the management terminal to the federated bean to cause the federated bean to control the first and second CIM providers to configure the first and second storage devices for data replication.