Patent ID: 7788520

Claim:
A method for administering a system dump on a redundant node controller in a computer system, the method comprising: detecting by a system controller a communications failure between the system controller and the redundant node controller; generating by the system controller a unique identifier for the communications failure; instructing, by the system controller, a primary node controller to provoke a system dump on the redundant node controller including providing to the primary node controller the unique identifier for the communications failure; provoking, by the primary node controller, the system dump on the redundant node controller including suspending a processor of the redundant node controller and storing during the suspension of the processor the unique identifier for the communications failure and an instruction to execute the system dump on the redundant node controller; releasing, by the primary node controller, the processor of the redundant node controller from suspension; in response to releasing the processor from suspension, identifying, by the redundant node controller, the unique identifier for the communications failure and the instruction to execute the system dump; and executing the system dump including associating the system dump with the unique identifier.