Patent ID: 7434102
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: initializing a plurality of processing systems; communicating status information about the operational health of each of the processing systems capable of operation to a management module responsible for managing the processing systems; reinitializing one or more of the processing systems, if the management module determines that the one or more of the processing systems is operating in a degraded state based on the status information communicated to the management module from each of the processing systems capable of operation; reseting one or more of the processing systems, if the management module determines that the one or more of the processing systems is incapable of operation; maintaining a failure count of a number of the resets for each of the processing systems incapable of operation; and alerting an administrator system about any of the processing systems having a failure count greater than a predefined number.