Patent ID: 7926069

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer usable program code programmed for providing a network interface to a small computer system interface (“SCSI”) storage device driver, the operations of the computer program product comprising: detecting an event in one of a storage device and a SCSI device driver of the storage device; comparing an event identifier associated with the event to a list of event identifiers; suspending an application in communication with the storage device through the SCSI device driver and sending a request associated with the event to a remote event manager over a transaction control protocol/Internet protocol (“TCP/IP”) connection, each in response to the event identifier matching a listed event identifier; receiving a response related to the event from the remote event manager over a TCP/IP connection; and one of sending the response to the storage device through the SCSI device driver, resuming the application, and failing the application.