17. The product of claim 9 wherein the agent examines the management information to determine whether the management information is to be grouped into partitions by the partitioner.
9. A computer program product having a computer readable storage medium operable to store computer program logic embodied in computer program code encoded thereon for an agent for organizing updates to management information in a storage area network comprising: computer program code for an interface to a manageable entity operable to identify update information including a set of updates to management information, the update information pertaining to manageable entities in a storage area network, each update in the set of updates corresponding to at least one manageable entity; computer program code for a hierarchical set of relations operable to identifying groups of manageable entities corresponding to the set of updates; computer program code for a partitioner operable to group the set of updates into partitions corresponding to the identified groups of manageable entities, each partition including updates affecting database elements, grouping including grouping updates in the set of updates into a partition of related updates, the related updates having changes in common with other updates in the partition such that the related updates result in writes to common database elements; corresponding to the manageable entities in a respective identified group wherein the partition includes entries of SAN manageable entities in the same hierarchy according to tree based partitioning and wherein grouping identifies relations between manageable entities and wherein updates resulting in a database modification corresponding to a particular manageable entity result in an update to a related manageable entity, as defined by the relations, the update affecting a common database element, the updates to the related manageable entity operable to be affected in the same database update; computer program code for transmitting each of the partitions independently of the other partitions according to a hierarchy of relations between the manageable entities; and computer program code for updating a SAN managed object database (MODB) using at least one group of partitioned updates.