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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Perinkulam I. Ganesh, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ravi Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
Esdras Cruz-Aguilar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jes Kiran Chittigala, Kukatpally, IN;
Michael Burton, Austin, TX (US);
Corradino Jones, Austin, TX (US);
Denise Marie Genty, Austin, TX (US);
James Pafumi, Leander, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Examples of techniques for failure detection for central electronics complex (CEC) group management are described herein. An aspect includes issuing a first logical partition (LPAR) probe to a hardware management console (HMC) of a central electronics complex (CEC) group, wherein the CEC group comprises a plurality of LPARs. Another aspect includes receiving a first response packet from the HMC corresponding to the first LPAR probe, wherein the first response packet comprises health data corresponding to a first LPAR of the plurality of LPARs. Another aspect includes storing the health data corresponding to the first LPAR in a first health data entry corresponding to the first LPAR. Another aspect includes, for a second LPAR of the plurality of LPARs that was not included in the first response packet, updating a second health data entry corresponding to the second LPAR to indicate that the second LPAR is healthy.