Abstract: A method and system for managing the presentation or display of information items or context are described. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises the steps of selecting an entity of a context type associated with a first display, determining at least one second display associated with the context of the selected entity; and making available information associated with the selected entity to each of the determined associated at least one second display. In another aspect of the invention, the method further provides for inhibiting the availability of information associated with the selected entity to a selected one of said determined associated second displays when the selected second display is the same as the first display. An “activate/deactivate” capability is provided such that a display (or window) can be configured to listen to selected context or to stop listening dynamically.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing an analysis on a Storage Area Network (SAN) system, containing a plurality of components, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components and the relationship among the components, wherein the representation comprises the steps of creating at least one non-specific representation of the selected components and creating at least one non-specification representation of relations along which the events propagate amongst the selected components, providing a mapping between a plurality events and a plurality of observable events occurring among the components, wherein the mapping is represented as a value associating each event with each observable event, and performing the system analysis based on the mapping of events and observable events.

Abstract: A method and system for managing the presentation or display of information items or context are described. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises the steps of selecting an entity of a context type associated with a first display, determining at least one second display associated with the context of the selected entity; and making available information associated with the selected entity to each of the determined associated at least one second display. In another aspect of the invention, the method further provides for inhibiting the availability of information associated with the selected entity to a selected one of said determined associated second displays when the selected second display is the same as the first display. In still another aspect of the invention, the method provides for inhibiting the display of information associated with the selected entity when the associated second display is the same as the first display.