Method and apparatus for customizable surveillance of network interfaces
First Claim
1. A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network, the method comprising:
- responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determining whether the change in state is one of (i) a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system and (ii) a re-establishment of the communication link to the remote data processing system;
if the change in state is the re-establishment of the communications link, starting a connection timer, wherein the connection timer is used to filter out short term establishment of the communications link;
if the change in state is the loss of the communications link, determining whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system, wherein the acceptable connection is present upon expiration of the connection timer that was started in response to the change in the state of the network being the re-establishment of the communication link; and
creating a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the remote data processing system.
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Abstract
A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
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9 Claims
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1. A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network, the method comprising:
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responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determining whether the change in state is one of (i) a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system and (ii) a re-establishment of the communication link to the remote data processing system; if the change in state is the re-establishment of the communications link, starting a connection timer, wherein the connection timer is used to filter out short term establishment of the communications link; if the change in state is the loss of the communications link, determining whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system, wherein the acceptable connection is present upon expiration of the connection timer that was started in response to the change in the state of the network being the re-establishment of the communication link; and creating a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the remote data processing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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5. A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network, the method comprising:
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responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determining whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system; if the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determining whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; creating a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the remote data processing system; determining whether a prior serviceable event was created within a third period of time if the second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system; and if a prior serviceable event was created within a third period of time, adding an indication of a new outage to the prior serviceable event instead of creating the new serviceable event.
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