Patent ID: 7743284

Claim:
A system for providing data regarding a storage system, the system comprising: the storage system comprising a set of one or more storage devices, a reporting module, and a storage management module configured for monitoring or testing storage devices of the storage system; and the reporting module configured for: collecting storage system data and storage device data of a particular storage device upon the particular storage device exhibiting an error, storing the collected data to a report file in a predetermined format that specifies a first section comprising storage system data and a second section comprising storage device data, collecting monitoring data of the particular storage device upon monitoring of the particular storage device ending, collecting testing data of the particular storage device upon testing of the particular storage device ending, and storing the collected data to the report file in the predetermined format which specifies first and second sub-sections of the second section, the first sub-section comprising monitoring data and the second sub-section comprising testing data.