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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
Krishna Deepak Nuthakki, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Within a domain such as a data center, host server activity monitors running on storage nodes observe meaningful commands sent by host servers to the storage nodes. Inactivity indicated by failure of any of the activity monitors to receive a meaningful command from a host server within a predetermined time limit prompts generation of a message that identifies that host server as possibly being unused. The host server activity monitors are also configured to identify as a possible unused host server any host server that is zoned for at least one of the storage nodes but not masked to any storage objects. If a quiescent host server becomes active, as indicated by resumption of sending meaningful commands to one of the storage nodes, then a message warning of a potential malicious attack is generated.