Inventors:
Ivan Basov - Westborough MA, US
Christian J. Chuba - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Stephen A. Fridella - Belmont MA, US
Uday K. Gupta - Westford MA, US
Xiaoye Jiang - Shrewsbury MA, US
Christopher Stacey - Swindon, GB
Jiannan Zheng - Ashland MA, US
Eyal Zimran - London, GB
Assignee:
EMC Corporation - Hopkinton MA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
US Classification:
707771, 707770, 707E17014
Abstract:
Accordingly a method and interface allows an attribute data base used by an Information Manager to be quickly populated and accurately maintained. A single Bulk Attribute Retrieval Request triggers the primary storage device to collect object attribute information. The method allows for selective collection of objects and attributes by providing filters and attribute lists in the Requests. The Request may be used to provide an incremental scan with appropriate time stamp filtering. In addition, the size of the results can be controlled by the IM by eliminating attributes that are not of interest to the IM. The Request is advantageously issued over a FileMover interface, which is an HTTP connection, and encoded in XML, allowing the IM to easily customize the Request as desired.
