NETWORK RESILIENCY THROUGH MEMORY HEALTH MONITORING AND PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT

• US 20160042280A1
• Filed: 08/07/2014
• Published: 02/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: PARK, YOONHO, ANDRADE COSTA, CARLOS H., CHER, CHEN-YONG, ROSENBURG, BRYAN S., RYU, KYUNG D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,825,827 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0663 Performing the actions predefined by failover planning, e.g. switching to standby network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

A method for managing a network queue memory includes receiving sensor information about the network queue memory, predicting a memory failure in the network queue memory based on the sensor information, and outputting a notification through a plurality of nodes forming a network and using the network queue memory, the notification configuring communications between the nodes.

Claims

1. A method for managing a network queue memory comprising:

receiving sensor information about the network queue memory;

predicting a memory failure in the network queue memory based on the sensor information; and

outputting a notification through a plurality of nodes forming a network and using the network queue memory, the notification configuring communications between the nodes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor information includes information about errors corrected in by one or more of the nodes of the network queue memory.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor information includes information about errors along one or more links connection the nodes forming the network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor information includes an assessment of a degradation process affecting the network queue memory of one or more of the plurality of nodes.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising collecting, by the plurality of nodes, the sensor information, wherein one or more of the plurality of nodes comprises a sensor.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification configures the communications between the nodes to route at least one message to by-pass one or more of a node using a faulty link and the faulty link.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by a network client, the notification; and

performing, by the network client, at least one maintenance task in response to the notification.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one maintenance task includes wear leveling by routing the communications between the nodes.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by a network client, the notification; and

configuring, by the network client, a process layout of the network client in response to the notification.

10. A computer program product for managing a network queue memory, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving sensor information about the network queue memory;

predicting a memory failure in the network queue memory based on the sensor information; and

outputting a notification through a plurality of nodes forming a network and using the network queue memory, the notification configuring communications between the nodes.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the sensor information includes information about errors corrected in by one or more of the nodes of the network queue memory.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the sensor information includes information about errors along one or more links connection the nodes forming the network.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the sensor information includes an assessment of a degradation process affecting the network queue memory of one or more of the plurality of nodes.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising collecting, by the plurality of nodes, the sensor information, wherein one or more of the plurality of nodes comprises a sensor.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the notification configures the communications between the nodes to route at least one message to by-pass one or more of a node using a faulty link and the faulty link.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising a network client using at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the network client performs at least one maintenance task in response to the notification.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising a network client using at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the network client changes a process layout in response to the notification.

18. A system comprising:

a plurality of nodes having network queue memory, the plurality of nodes forming a network; and

a monitor connected to the network and configured to received sensor information from the plurality of nodes and predict a failure in the network queue memory and determine message routes among the plurality of nodes based on a predicted failure.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a network client in communication with the monitor and using the network queue memory, wherein the monitor outputs a notification to the network client upon determining the predicted failure.