Error tracking method and system

• US 7,181,647 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2003
• Issued: 02/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hattrup, Glen, Dawson, Colin S., Martin, Howard N., Morton, David M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman; Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Truong; Loan
• Application Number:
  US10/686,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20050097395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 714/20, 714/52
• US Class Current: 714/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments

Abstract

An example of a method for error tracking includes sending a data object to a first location. This example also includes determining if the data object was successfully stored at the first location, and if so, storing meta data corresponding with the data object, wherein the meta data includes first path information. This example of the method also includes sending the data object to a second location. This example further includes determining if the data object was successfully stored at the second location, and if so, adding second path information to the meta data corresponding with the data object, to update the meta data. Some examples of the invention may be called a data centric error tracking and problem analysis method (and system), because the error tracking is generally based on the path traveled by the data.

Claims

1. A method for error tracking, comprising the following operations:

sending a data object to a first location, a second location, and a third location at substantially the same time;

determining if the data object was successfully stored at the first location, and if so, storing in a single meta data record, meta data corresponding with the data object, wherein the meta data includes first path information comprising a first source identifier and a first destination identifier;

determining if the data object was successfully stored at the second location, and if so, also storing in the single meta data record, first additional meta data corresponding with the data object, wherein the first additional meta data includes additional first path information comprising a second destination identifier;

determining if the data object was successfully stored at the third location, and if so, also storing in the single meta data record, second additional meta data corresponding with the data object, wherein the second additional meta data includes additional first path information comprising a third destination identifier;

sending the data object from the first location to a fourth location;

determining if the data object was successfully stored at the fourth location, and if so, adding second path information to the meta data corresponding with the data object, to update the meta data.