Abstract: In a storage system management device, a method for graphically displaying a component of a data storage system. The method includes mapping, by the storage system management device, each component of a set of components of the data storage system to at least one graphical image of the component, displaying, by the storage system management device, a tree table of the set of components of the data storage system, and outputting, by the storage system management device, at least one graphical image of a component of the set of components selected from the tree table.

Abstract: Communications connections with data storage systems are managed. A discovery process is executed to identify an iSCSI port on data storage system. Settings for the iSCSI port are accepted as user input at a server. Communication is performed from the server to the data storage system to configure the iSCSI port.

Abstract: A method for controlling an operation of a server system by a client system interconnected with the server by a network. The server includes a network communications server facility, a server resident scripting utility for creating and executing server scripts and a resident server page that includes a scripting for creating a server object, the server object including a server method for controlling an operation of the server system and an applet for invoking the server page and corresponding to a server method to be executed in the server system. The client includes a browser for communicating with the server. A translated server page is downloaded from the server to the client. The translated server page corresponds to the server page resident in the server and the script in the translated server page is translated into a form executable by the browser in the client. An input to the client invokes the applet, which in turn invokes the script of the translated server page.