21. A method, comprising: discovering one or more storage area network (SAN) components of a SAN; monitoring the discovered SAN components; providing the SAN discovery information and SAN monitoring information to a centralized SAN management user interface; and managing the SAN from the centralized SAN management user interface using the provided SAN discovery information and the provided SAN monitoring information, wherein said managing the SAN comprises performing one or more SAN management tasks in response to interactions of the user interface, and wherein said managing the SAN comprises managing the discovered one or more SAN components.
21. A method, comprising: discovering one or more storage area network (SAN) components of a SAN; monitoring the discovered SAN components; providing the SAN discovery information and SAN monitoring information to a centralized SAN management user interface; and managing the SAN from the centralized SAN management user interface using the provided SAN discovery information and the provided SAN monitoring information, wherein said managing the SAN comprises performing one or more SAN management tasks in response to interactions of the user interface, and wherein said managing the SAN comprises managing the discovered one or more SAN components. 28. The method as recited in claim 21 , further comprising performing a transactional LUN security operation to create a path between one or more addressable storage units of a storage system of the SAN and one or more host adapter ports of a host system of the SAN.