System and method for producing tree perspectives of storage systems

摘要

System and method for producing tree perspectives of a plurality of storage systems using storage system descriptors and a set of search rules. The system and method herein provide an easy way to locate and identify specific storage systems. The storage system descriptors comprise external storage system metadata (referred to herein as “external metadata”) and/or internal storage system attributes (referred to herein as “internal attributes”) that describe the storage systems. The set of search rules comprises one or more metadata search rules and/or one or more attribute search rules. The set of search rules may be applied to the external metadata and/or internal attributes to determine a set of one or more matching storage systems. A tree perspective may be produced that represents the set of matching storage systems. The tree perspective may display the hierarchal organization of the set of matching storage systems through a hierarchical tree structure.

主权项

1. A system, comprising at least one processor and memory, for providing a perspective of a set of storage systems, the system comprising:
a plurality of storage systems, each storage system comprising a local storage storing metadata to a predetermined storage location, the metadata describing the storage system and comprising at least one type of metadata and one or more values for the at least one type of metadata, the at least one type of metadata relating to a geographical location of the storage system, users of the storage system, or a storage use of the storage system; a manager engine configured for: determining a set of one or more search rules, each search rule specifying a type of metadata and one or more values for the type of metadata; receiving the metadata for the plurality of storage systems by receiving metadata from the predetermined storage location on the local storage of each storage system applying the set of search rules to the received metadata to determine a set of one or more matching storage systems; producing a perspective of the set of matching storage systems; receiving from a user, through the perspective, modified metadata for a matching storage system; transmitting the modified metadata to the matching storage system; and re-applying the set of search rules to the metadata to re-produce the perspective using the modified metadata.