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Identifying an error cause within a dispersed storage network

  • US 9,170,868 B2
  • Filed: 07/12/2012
  • Issued: 10/27/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining a cause of an error within a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises:

  • selecting two or more correlated error messages of a plurality of error messages;

    identifying two or more collection of records corresponding to the selected two or more correlated error messages, wherein a collection of records of the two or more collection of records includes;

    an event record including information regarding an event, wherein the event is a user access operation or a system administrative operation initiated by a device affiliated with the DSN;

    a first record including information regarding a dispersed storage (DS) processing module processing an event request to produce a plurality of sub-event requests, wherein the event request is regarding the event; and

    a plurality of records including information regarding a plurality of DS units processing the plurality of sub-event requests; and

    identifying a correlation cause of one or more errors corresponding to the two or more correlated error messages based on the two or more collections of records.

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