Storage area network methods and apparatus for display and management of a hierarchical file system extension policy

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6854035
APP PUB NO 20030145041A1
SERIAL NO

09971534

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A storage area network (SAN), e.g., as described above, includes a one or more hosts digital data processors, each having a file system that effects access to one or more storage devices. Each processor is associated with multiple groups from respective levels of a hierarchy, e.g., a first processor group and a second processor group hierarchically descendant from the first processor group. A process, e.g., executing on a manager digital data processor, includes a graphical user interface that displays the processor groups as a hierarchical tree. Along, for example, with the identities of the processor groups, nodes of the displayed tree list attributes of the policy defined for each respective group.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Dunham, Douglas Paul San Jose, CA 8 418
Dunn, Andrew Oceano, CA 28 488
Dunton, Tina Lynn San Jose, CA 4 212
Perkins, Jason Michael Santa Clara, CA 1 121
Yip, Ophelia K San Francisco, CA 3 205

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