| 摘要 |
A method and system for discovering the location of a storage router (16, 18 ), and therefore the attached storage devices (30, 70), in a fibre channel network (10) using the storage router's fully qualified domain name to determine the storage router's arbitrated loop physical address (AL PA). A domain name query is sent from a host computer (14) over the network to a domain name server (20) to determine an IP address for the storage router (1 6, 18). The domain name server (20) replies with the storage router IP address. The host computer (14) then sends an address resolution protocol request containing the IP address over the network to determine a node name for the storage router (16, 18). The storage router (16, 18) replies with its node name. The host computer (14) then sends an FCP request containing the storag e router's node name over the network to determine AL PA of the storage router (16, 18). The storage router (16, 18) replies with its AL PA. The host computer (14) can use a variety of standard inquiries to discover storage devices (30, 72) attached to the storage router (16, 18).
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