Namespace and storage management application infrastructure for use in management of resources in a storage system environment

摘要

A namespace and storage management (NSM) application includes an infrastructure configured to enable efficient management of resources in a storage system environment. The NSM application executes on a NSM console and interacts with an NSM server to integrate namespace management and storage management in the storage system environment. The NSM server, in turn, interacts with one or more remote agents installed on host machines in the environment to convey application programming interface (API) function calls that enable remote management of the resources.

主权项

1. A system configured to enable management of resources in a storage system, the system comprising:
a management console computer executing a management application to interact with a management server and integrate namespace management and storage management, the management application having an infrastructure including at least one client presentation layer disposed over a library layer apportioned into at least one application programming interface (API) toolkit, the management application and API toolkit when executed operable to:
perform API processing and communication with the management server to produce reusable components directed to namespace and storage management functions, the API toolkit cooperating with the client presentation layer to prompt a user for user credentials, to be provided on-demand, and perform an operation upon the resources in the storage system, andinvoke a first set of APIs on the management server that causes invocation of a second set of APIs on a remote agent executing on a namespace server and interacting with the management server to construct or change a pathname in a logical namespace, wherein the management server is configured to cooperate with the remote agent to acquire a copy of a namespace directory structure from a namespace server wherein the copy of the namespace directory is stored in a database associated with the management server and wherein after configuration of the copy of the namespace directory the configured copy of the namespace directory is transmitted back to the namespace server for storage.