Unified system and method for downloading code to heterogeneous devices in distributed storage area networks

摘要

A system and method for downloading software to a plurality of devices in a storage network. A command processor receives commands from an external source to download a software module to a plurality of devices matching a predefined set of criteria. A device selector module receives a command from the command processor and selects devices that satisfy the criteria in the command. A coordinator module coordinates code load for the software module to be downloaded, and a multivendor device download module initiates a software download to a plurality of devices in the network after authentication. The system may implement multiple techniques to discover various devices in a Storage Area Network (SAN), and may perform path and load-based distributed parallel schedulable code load to heterogeneous devices in the storage area network using a unified vendor device independent code load interface. The code load process may utilize host agents that are constructed using a layered architecture.