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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
James Andrew Ignatuk, Mars, PA (US);
Andrew Ryan Dalton, Apex, NC (US);
Jeffrey Eric Semke, Allison Park, PA (US);
Assignee:
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1033 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring and recovering from internal and external network connectivity losses. The systems and applications implement algorithms that mark sets of network ports as healthy or degraded, and this way the filer can recover from and compensate for sets that are not reachable, based on the diagnostics performed on the internal and external reachability of the set and/or individual network ports as disclosed herein.