Patent ID: 7120709

Claim:
A disk-array device where a storage device is connected to a server device on a network via a switch device, said disk-array device comprising: link-information management means for acquiring through an interface of said disk-array device respective link information among said server device, said switch device, and said storage device via said switch device so as to manage said link information in a combined manner; and collection/analysis means for retrieving and collecting desired combined information of said link information from said link-information management means so as to analyze said desired combined information, wherein link information includes attribute information of an adaptor of said server device, said switch device, or an adaptor of said storage device, and said attribute information includes a model number and a version number of a driving software or firmware, wherein concerning the compatibility about a link of the version of a host bus adapter (HBA) driver of said server device and the version of firmware of said switch device, an already-verified combination table is displayed in an in-batch manner.