Method and apparatus for providing an error messaging system

• US 6,381,712 B1
• Filed: 06/30/1999
• Issued: 04/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Nemitz, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Iqbal, Nadeem
• Application Number:
  US09/343,973
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: 714/57, 714/48, 714/47, 714/46, 714/44, 714/43, 714/39, 714/25, 710/17, 710/18, 710/19
• US Class Current: 714/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0718 in an object-oriented system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0769 Readable error formats, e.g. cross-platform generic formats, human understandable formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display

Abstract

A standard platform independent messaging environment for use with devices is provided. The environment provides programming and operational building blocks that can be used to interface with existing data providing capabilities to identify, respond to, and report errors and failover conditions. Customizable decision logic is used to provide more sophisticated response and reporting capabilities, even though the basic device hardware and operation is not redesigned.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

one or more devices coupled to a network;

a virtual machine associated with one or more of said devices;

program code executed by said virtual machine to respond to an event in said one or more devices, wherein said program code comprises;

a first object configured to identify when a threshold event occurs;

a second object configured to determine a response to said threshold event; and

a third object configured to carry out said response.

2. An apparatus comprising:

one or more devices coupled to a network;

a virtual machine associated with one or more of said devices;

program code executed by said virtual machine to respond to an event in said one or more devices, wherein said program code comprises;

a first object configured to identify when a failover event occurs;

a second object configured to determine a response to said failover event; and

a third object configured to carry out said response.

3. An apparatus comprising:

one or more devices coupled to a network;

a virtual machine associated with one or more of said devices;

program code executed by said virtual machine to respond to an event in said one or more devices, wherein said program code comprises;

a first object configured to identify when an on/off scenario is requested; and

a second object configured to implement said on/off scenario.