Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture. A first process creates a second process. A cipher is generated. The first process is terminated. Access is controlled to the generated cipher.

Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture. A first process creates a second process. A cipher is generated. The first process is terminated. Access is controlled to the generated cipher.

Abstract: Provided are a method, system, program, and data structures for enabling access to device information. At least one data object includes code providing a representation of elements conforming to a schema specifying details for managing components, wherein the at least one data object includes at least one representation of a device property value. A request for one data object is received and an output data object is generated including the elements from the requested data object and the at least one representation of the device property value. A determination is made of a device property value for the corresponding at least one representation of the device property value in the data object and the at least one determined device property value is included in the output data object. The output data object is returned in response to the request.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for building and maintaining a detailed inventory of Storage Area Network (SAN) devices. According to one embodiment of the invention, the topology of a SAN is discovered by determining the nodes associated with the SAN. A repository host receives in-band and/or out-of-band transmissions including information regarding Input/Output (I/O) adapters associated with the non-repository hosts on the SAN. Those of the SAN nodes that correspond to storage devices are identified and associations between the hosts and the storage devices are identified based upon the information regarding I/O adapters. Finally, information regarding the characteristics of a storage device is gathered by causing an I/O adapter of a host associated with the storage device to issue one or more interconnect protocol commands to the storage device via an in-band SAN transmission.