METHOD FOR MAINTAINING TELNET SESSION, TELNET AGENCY AND COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20070130346A1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Published: 06/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Zhen, Xie, BO
• Application Number:
  US11/537,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20070130346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for maintaining a telnet session in a computer network system, comprising: creating sessions with a telnet client and a telnet server respectively by a telnet agency based on a telnet request from the telnet client, and maintaining a telnet session between the telnet client and the telnet server through transmitting data between the sessions. If the telnet client becomes offline during the telnet session, the telnet agency will suspend the telnet session, keep all activities of the telnet session in the telnet agency, and resume the telnet session later according to a request from the telnet client.

Claims

1. A method of maintaining a telnet session in a computer network system, wherein said computer network system comprises at least a telnet client, at least a telnet server, and a telnet agency, the method comprising:

creating sessions with the telnet client and the telnet server respectively by the telnet agency based on a telnet request from the telnet client, and maintaining a telnet session between the telnet client and the telnet server through transmitting data between the sessions; and

suspending the telnet session, keeping all activities of the telnet session in the telnet agency, and resuming the telnet session later according to a request from the telnet client, by the telnet agency, if the telnet client becomes offline during the telnet session.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining by the telnet agency whether the telnet client requests to create a new session or requests to resume a suspended session;

creating a first session with the telnet client and a second session with the telnet server respectively, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to create a new session, and beginning to transmit data between the first session and the second session; and

finding out the corresponding suspended session and all kept activities thereof, creating a third session with the telnet client, resuming the suspended session, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to resume a suspended session, and beginning to transmit data between the third session and the resumed session.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the telnet agency determines whether the telnet client requests to create a new session or requests to resume a suspended session according to a resumption identification in the telnet request from the telnet client.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telnet agency creates the session with the telnet server according to an IP address and port number of the telnet server inputted by the telnet client.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein creating the session with the telnet server further comprises the telnet agency automatically mapping a local IP address and port to the telnet server IP address and port.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telnet agency suspending the telnet session comprises sending NOP (no operation) messages to the telnet server periodically.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telnet agency keeping all activities in the telnet session comprises caching negotiated options and session data related to the telnet session.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telnet agency and the telnet server are located at different nodes of the computer network system.

9. A telnet agency for maintaining a telnet session in a computer network system, comprising:

a listen module configured to listen to a telnet request from a telnet client and detect whether the telnet client is offline;

a connection module configured to create a connection with a destined telnet server and receive/send data from/to it; and

a control module configured to suspend a telnet session and resume the telnet session.

10. The telnet agency according to claim 9, wherein the listen module is further used to verify a resumption identification.

11. The telnet agency according to claim 9, wherein the control module comprises:

a map module configured to map a local IP address and port to the IP address and port of a destined telnet server;

a cache module configured to cache all activities in a telnet session; and

a relay module configured to transmit data between a telnet client and a telnet server.

12. The telnet agency according to claim 11, wherein the cache module is used to cache options and data negotiated for telnet sessions, re-negotiate telnet options with the telnet server and the telnet client, and transmit a latest cached telnet screen to the telnet client while the telnet client is resuming a suspended telnet session.

13. A computer system for maintaining a telnet session in a computer network, wherein said computer system comprises at least a telnet client, at least a telnet server, and a telnet agency, said computer system comprises:

means for creating sessions with the telnet client and the telnet server respectively by the telnet agency based on a telnet request from the telnet client, and for maintaining a telnet session between the telnet client and the telnet server through transmitting data between the sessions; and

means for suspending the telnet session, keeping all activities of the telnet session in the telnet agency, and for resuming the telnet session later according to a request from the telnet client, by the telnet agency, if the telnet client becomes offline during the telnet session.

14. The computer system according to claim 13, said system further comprising:

means for determining by the telnet agency whether the telnet client requests to create a new session or requests to resume a suspended session;

means for creating a first session with the telnet client and a second session with the telnet server respectively, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to create a new session, and for beginning to transmit data between the first session and the second session; and

means for finding out the corresponding suspended session and all kept activities thereof, for creating a third session with the telnet client, and for resuming the suspended session, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to resume a suspended session, and means for beginning to transmit data between the third session and the resumed session.

15. The computer system according to claim 14, wherein the telnet agency determines whether the telnet client requests to create a new session or requests to resume a suspended session according to a resumption identification in the telnet request from the telnet client.

16. The computer system according to claim 13, wherein the telnet agency creates the session with the telnet server according to an IP address and port number of the telnet server inputted by the telnet client.

17. The computer system according to claim 13, wherein the means for creating the session with the telnet server further comprises means for the telnet agency to automatically map a local IP address and port to the telnet server IP address and port.

18. The computer system according to claim 13, wherein the means for the telnet agency suspending the telnet session comprises means for sending NOP (no operation) messages to the telnet server periodically.

19. A computer program product comprising a recordable computer usable medium having computer usable program code for maintaining a telnet session in a computer network, wherein said computer network system comprises at least a telnet client, at least a telnet server, and a telnet agency, said computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for creating sessions with the telnet client and the telnet server respectively by the telnet agency based on a telnet request from the telnet client, and maintaining a telnet session between the telnet client and the telnet server through transmitting data between the sessions; and

computer usable program code for suspending the telnet session, keeping all activities of the telnet session in the telnet agency, and resuming the telnet session later according to a request from the telnet client, by the telnet agency, if the telnet client becomes offline during the telnet session.

20. The computer program product according to claim 19, further comprising:

computer usable program code for determining by the telnet agency whether the telnet client requests to create a new session or requests to resume a suspended session;

computer usable program code for creating a first session with the telnet client and a second session with the telnet server respectively, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to create a new session, and beginning to transmit data between the first session and the second session; and

computer usable program code for finding out the corresponding suspended session and all kept activities thereof, creating a third session with the telnet client, resuming the suspended session, by the telnet agency, if it is determined that the telnet client requests to resume a suspended session, and beginning to transmit data between the third session and the resumed session.