Patent ID: 7339885
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network, the method comprising: responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determining whether the change in state is one of (i) a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system and (ii) a re-establishment of the communication link to the remote data processing system; if the change in state is the re-establishment of the communications link, starting a connection timer, wherein the connection timer is used to filter out short term establishment of the communications link; if the change in state is the loss of the communications link, determining whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system, wherein the acceptable connection is present upon expiration of the connection timer that was started in response to the change in the state of the network being the re-establishment of the communication link; and creating a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the remote data processing system.