Patent ID: 7698601
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a minimally degraded configuration when failing commotions occur, comprising; determining associative deconfigurations that result from deconfiguring hardware items in a server system; deriving associative groups based on the associative deconfigurations; determining a list of failed connections in the server system, the failed connections being a path between hardware items; determining failed connections between two hardware items that are in the same associative group and deconfiguring the two hardware items at both endpoints of the failed connection; setting each associative group state to unknown; counting the number of failed connections in which a single endpoint of the failed connection is within the associative group; setting the associative group state to deconfigured, if a member of the associative group was deconfigured; analyzing counts of the associative groups that remain in the unknown state; selecting the associative group with the smallest failed connection count; setting the associative group with the smallest failed connection count to a configured state; for every failed connection to and from the associative group with the smallest failed connection count, setting the other associative group at the other end of the failed connection to a deconfigured state; deconfiguring the hardware item within the other associative group; and continuing selecting and state setting until there are no more unknown associative groups.