Patent ID: 6594775
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A fault handling monitor transparently using multiple technologies for fault handling in a shared system resource providing services to a plurality of clients communicating with the system resource through a network, the shared system resource including a network domain supporting client/resource communications through a plurality of client/resource network communications paths and a control/processing domain including a multiplicity of peer processing blade domains, each peer processing blade domain being connected to the plurality of communications paths of the network domain and performing related operations in mutual support of the functions of the network domain and providing communications between the peer processing blade domains through an inter-domain communications link, comprising:in each peer processing blade domain, a monitoring mechanism for detecting a communications failure in another peer processing blade domain and directing communications affected by the communications failure through one or more of a plurality of alternate paths, the alternate paths including an alternate one of the plurality of client/resource communications paths, and the inter-domain communications link.