Patent Document ID: 9767170
Application ID: 14516116
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A storage area network comprising: one or more operational switches, wherein said one or more operational switches contain zone databases of said storage area network; a parsing logic for parsing said zone databases into a relational database, wherein said relational database comprises descriptions of nodes and edges of said storage area network; a graphic rendering engine operating on said relational database to present an undirected graph of said storage area network; a structuring logic to structure said undirected graph into a layout using one or more pre-defined algorithms, wherein said one or more pre-defined algorithms identify potentially problematic zones in said storage area network; a metrics calculator to calculate metrics of inbetweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and eccentricity of said storage area network from said layout, wherein said metrics are applied as indicators to said layout to highlight problematic zones in said storage area network; and a display to display said layout with said indicators to enable optimization operations on said storage area network.