Method and apparatus for automatic recovery from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation

• Main Authors: GOODMAN BENJIMAN L, FIELDS JAMES S.JR, LECOCQ PAUL F, REDDY PRAVEEN S, FLOYD MICHAEL S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.08.2006
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION; PHYSICS

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided by the present invention to automatically recover from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation. A control logic is provided to send a first test command to processors of a new node. If the first test command is successful, a second t...