System and method for efficiently representing and managing a computer facility

摘要

A method of representing and managing hierarchical relationship configuration in a computing facility is described. The method includes providing and storing a first index of hardware identifier assigned to each object in the computing facility; providing and storing a second index of ancestry identifiers of each object in the computing facility, the ancestry identifier of an object being the hardware identifier of an ancestor object at 1 to n hierarchy levels above the object; providing and storing a type information element for each ancestor object indicative of a type of ancestor object; and identifying an ancestor object of a particular object in the computing facility by accessing the first index of hardware identifier of the particular object; and identifying an ancestor object thereof of a particular typed by accessing the ancestry identifiers and the type information element of the particular object.

主权项

1. A method of managing network connectivity of servers in a computing facility, the method comprising the steps of:
storing in a first table a first multiplicity of hardware identifiers assigned to a respective multiplicity of servers and network devices in the computing facility; storing in a second table first, second and third network connector identifiers, assigned to first, second and third ones of the network devices, respectively, in a hierarchy, one of the servers being connected to the first network device, the first network device being connected to the second network device, and the second network device being connected to the third network device; storing in a third table (a) a first level identifier for the first network device to represent the first network device as being in a first level above the one server, (b) a second level identifier for the second network device to represent the second network device as being in a second level above the one server, and (c) a third level identifier for the third network device to represent the third network device as being in a third level above the one server; and subsequently, responsive to removal of one of the first, second or third network devices and substitution of another network device, substituting and storing in the third table of level identifiers another level identifier representing the other, substituted first, second or third network device for the level identifier for the removed network device.