Patent ID: 8291268
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to provide an alert notification and a reconcile action, comprising: supplying a client computing system and a target computing system comprising a storage controller in communication with a plurality of data storage drives, wherein: said target computing system is in communication with said client computing system; said target computing system comprises a communication module, and a management module; said communication module comprises a first computer readable medium, and a plurality of notification messages encoded in said first computer readable medium; said management module comprises a processor, a second computer readable medium, and a plurality of reconcile action encoded in said second computer readable medium; providing by said target computing system to said client computing system an enclosure temperature warning alert notification responsive to an error condition and two reconcile actions responsive to the error condition, wherein one a first reconcile action comprises ignoring said error condition and wherein a second reconcile action comprises reducing drive activity; selecting a reconcile action by said client computing system; implementing said selected reconcile action by said target computing system; wherein said implementing step is performed without logging into said target computing system.