Patent ID: 7937481

Claim:
A method, comprising: disabling a device in an enterprise storage system, the disabling comprising: receiving information identifying a device in a storage area network that is scheduled for an outage; determining one or more paths impacted by the scheduled outage of the device; designating a path of the one or more paths that is operating as being in an alive state; designating a path of the one or more paths that is not operating as being in a dead state; designating a path of the one or more paths that is not operating as expected as being in a degraded state; designating a path of the one or more paths that is experiencing problems and it cannot be determined if the path is in the degraded state or the dead state as being in a warning state; generating a notification identifying the one or more paths, the notification comprising the designated state of each of the one or more paths; and transmitting the notification to one or more hosts.