Patent ID: 8769088
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing stability of a link for in-band data communications, the method comprising: monitoring, by the management module, link health of a link coupling an adapter of a computing system to a port of a networking device, including retrieving adapter link statistics from the adapter, and retrieving networking device link statistics from the networking device, wherein the adapter and the networking device are each coupled for out-of-band data communications to the management module; determining, in dependence upon the adapter link statistics and the networking device link statistics, whether the link health meets predefined health acceptability criteria; if the link health does not meet predefined health acceptability criteria: wherein upon execution of the predefined corrective actions and execution of the network device-specific predefined corrective actions, the link health of the link for in-band communications meets the predefined health acceptability criteria.