Patent ID: 7634518

Claim:
An apparatus for managing and archiving performance information relating to a plurality of storage components in a networked storage system, comprising: at least one collection agent configured to collect storage system performance information from at least one of said storage system components; a command and control module interfaced to said collection agent automatically issuing commands to said collection agents in response to a user-specified policy and receiving said storage system performance information from said collection agents, said command and control module coordinating request of data from said collection agents; a data manager receiving said storage system performance information from said command and control module, wherein said data manager is configured to perform computation and conversion of said storage system performance information to generate computed metrics and converted metrics; archives receiving and storing at least one of said computed metrics and converted metrics from said data manager; and a performance view component a correlation component having an autocorrelation mode adapted to receive a selection of a set of objects and a selection of associated set of metrics from a user, and generate a first table of said objects and metrics sorted by respective coefficients of correlation for said selected objects and metrics, and having a second mode of correlation adapted to receive a selection of two independent lists of objects and/or metrics from a user, generating a second table of said objects and metrics in said two independent lists sorted by respective coefficients of correlation for said selected objects and metrics.