Methods and systems for testing a cluster management station

• US 20050256948A1
• Filed: 05/14/2004
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hu, Shaotang
• Application Number:
  US10/846,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20050256948A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management

Abstract

Methods and systems for testing a cluster management station. A request for a trap to be generated is accessed at a trap generator. The trap generator can be software executing on a computer system. The trap is generated at the trap generator without requiring an actual failure associated with the trap.

Claims

1. A method of generating traps for testing a cluster management station comprising:

accessing, at a trap generator, a request for a trap to be generated;

generating, at said trap generator, said trap; and

wherein said trap is generated without requiring an actual failure associated with said trap.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said generating comprises generating a plurality of traps at a regular interval.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said generating comprises generating a plurality of traps at random intervals.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein said generating comprises generating a plurality of traps according to a statistical distribution.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein said statistical distribution is a Poisson distribution.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein said generating comprises generating a plurality of traps as fast as possible.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein said request for a trap to be generated comprises a computer usable media.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein said computer usable media is accessed via a network communication.

9. A simple network management protocol trap generator software comprising:

a trap accessor for accessing requests to generate a trap;

a trap creator to generate said trap; and

a trap forwarder to forward said trap to a cluster management station.

10. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 for sending a plurality of simple network management protocol traps to a simple network management protocol master agent.

11. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 for sending a plurality of simple network management protocol traps directly to a management station.

12. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 configured to generate a plurality of simple network management protocol traps at a regular interval.

13. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 configured to generate a plurality of simple network management protocol traps at random intervals.

14. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 configured to generate a plurality of simple network management protocol traps according to a statistical distribution.

15. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 14 wherein said statistical distribution is a Poisson distribution.

16. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 configured to generate a plurality of simple network management protocol traps as fast as possible.

17. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 9 configured to access a computer usable media to determine a type of trap to be generated.

18. The simple network management protocol trap generator software according to claim 17 wherein said computer usable media is accessed via a network link.

19. A computer usable media comprising computer usable instructions, which when executed on a computer processor implement A method of generating traps for testing a cluster management station, said method comprising:

accessing, at a trap generator, a request for a trap to be generated;

generating, at said trap generator, said trap; and

wherein said trap is generated without requiring an actual failure associated with said trap.

20. The computer usable media according to claim 19 wherein said request for a trap to be generated comprises a computer usable media.