Patent ID: 7917807

Claim:
A method for determining severity of communication deficiencies, isolating faults, and mapped recovery in a power network of a data processing environment by a processor device connected to a memory device, comprising: pursuant to a continuous graph theory analysis: initializing each of a plurality of nodes of the power network with an equal, arbitrary value; and analyzing each of a plurality of network paths connecting each of the plurality of nodes, wherein: upon a successful communication over one of the plurality of network paths, incrementing one arbitrary value of one of the plurality of nodes connected to the one of the plurality of network paths by a weighting value of a plurality of weighting values, the weighting value representative of a physical characteristic of the one of the plurality of network paths, upon a communication deficiency over the one of the plurality of network paths, decrementing the one arbitrary value of the one of the plurality of nodes connected to the one of the plurality of network paths by the weighting value, repeating at least one of the incrementing and decrementing on an adjusted value for the one of the plurality of nodes obtained from application of the weighting value until a predetermined threshold for the one of the plurality of network paths is reached, and upon reaching the predetermined threshold, performing a recovery on which of the plurality of nodes connected to the one of the plurality of network paths having a lower adjusted value.