REACTIVE DIAGNOSTICS IN STORAGE AREA NETWORKS

摘要

The present techniques relate to reactive diagnostics of a storage area network (SAN). In one implementation, the method for performing reactive diagnostics in the SAN comprises determining a topology of the SAN, wherein the SAN comprising devices and connecting elements to interconnect the devices. The method further comprises depicting the topology in a graph, wherein the graph designates the devices as nodes and the connecting elements as edges, and the graph comprises operations associated with at least one component of the nodes and edges. Thereafter, at least one parameter indicative of performance of the at least one component is monitored to ascertain degradation of the at least one component. The method further comprises performing reactive diagnostics for of the at least one component, to determine root cause of the degradation, based on the operations.

主权项

1. A system for performing reactive diagnostics in a storage area network (SAN) comprising:
a processor; a mufti-layer network graph generation (MLNGG) module; coupled to the processor, to generate a graph representing a topology of the SAN, the graph comprising nodes indicative of devices in the SAN, edges indicative of connecting elements between the devices, and one or more operations associated with at least one component of the nodes and edges; a monitoring module, coupled to the processor, to:
monitor at least one parameter indicative of performance of the at least one component; anddetermine a degradation in performance of the at least one component; and a reactive diagnostics module; coupled to the processor, to perform, on determining the degradation, reactive diagnostics to determine a root cause of the degradation based on the one or more operations, wherein the one or more operations is based on the topology of the SAN.