Patent ID: 8677184

Claim:
A system for creating a list of related defects in a network environment, the system comprising: a processor; and a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to acquire a device list related to devices in multiple paths of a network, the computer readable program code for acquiring a device list including computer readable program code that when executed by the processor causes the system to issue trace route commands for discovering devices in each of the paths, including computer readable program code configured to issue a fibre channel (FC) trace route command for at least one of the paths; computer readable program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to query one or more information sources using the device list to retrieve deflect data from the one or more information sources; computer readable program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to create a list of related defects based on the retrieved defect data; and computer readable program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to output the list of related defects.