International Business Machines Corporation

Red Hat, Inc.

Lawrence Edward Troan

Robin Joel Landry

Willard Woods

David Keith Lawrence

Robert E Moore

James P Gray

Guy Platel

John G Stevenson

Jeffrey G Knauth

Arthur A Daniel

James L Ashton

Michael F Gierlach

Robert T Gibbs

John P Meeham

Stuart W Pretzman

Catherine J Anderson

Thomas J Gelm

Raymond F Kiter

Willard Gordon Woods

System and method for verifying compatibility of computer equipment with a software product. A system and method are provided to verify compatibility of computer equipment with software. This verification can include gathering information about configurations of the computer equipment, and creating at least one file based on the information. The file or files coordinate testing of the computer equipment. The testing produces results that can be stored and analyzed or evaluated. The results can be contained in a file or a plurality of files. The results provide a description of the configurations in addition to an indication of whether the testing has produced any failures. The configuration descriptions or parts thereof can be stored in a configuration database that can be used to apply credit against future testing of computer equipment so that future testing needs can be reduced.

System and method for verifying compatibility of computer equipment with a software product

A method of operating a communication system which includes a number of host systems each communicating via sessions with other devices over different connections and in which the sessions assigned to a failed connection are suspended for a first and second time period and non-destructively moved to an alternate connection when a unique command is issued by one of the host systems and received by a control unit involved in the failed connection.

Non-disruptive session recovery

The construction and display of operator messages representative of alert conditions in a network is described. Code points, which are strings of bits, are generated in response to an event in a device attached to the network. The code points are used to index predefined tables that contain relatively short units of text messages in operator selectable languages to be used in building an operator's information display. A product attached to a network, an alert sender, will generate a series of code points representative of desired display messages for an operator. The messages are indepedent of the specific alert sending product insofar as an alert receiver is concerned. The operator can also choose between detailed and general display messages. The code points are hierarchically arranged so that if the alert receiver does not have the most up to date set of messages, the alert receiver will display a more generic message which is still representative of the event.

Method and apparatus for communication network alert message construction

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