Patent ID: 8042004

Claim:
A method for diagnosing communications, the method comprising: receiving a first message from a sending node at a receiving node; detecting at the receiving node an error in receiving the first message; determining by the receiving node that the error is an interface error; capturing data regarding the interface error on the receiving node; creating a first error log about the interface error at the receiving node; sending a diagnostic log request as a second message from the receiving node to the sending node, the diagnostic log request as the second message including a request for the sending node to log information about the interface error detected at the receiving node; wherein the diagnostic log request as the second message sent from the receiving node causes the sending node to create a sending node error entry to be stored on the sending node; and receiving from the sending node a diagnostic log response as a third message at the receiving node in response to the diagnostic log, the diagnostic log response as the third message including the sending node error entry that was created and stored by the sending node; wherein each of the first message from the sending node, the second message being the diagnostic log request sent by the receiving node, and the third message being the diagnostic log response from the sending node are different messages from one another.