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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2000
James P. Allen, Austin, TX (US);
Marcus Bryan Grande, Austin, TX (US);
Robert G. Kovacs, Austin, TX (US);
James P. Allen, Austin, TX (US);
Marcus Bryan Grande, Austin, TX (US);
Robert G. Kovacs, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for remotely waking up a Fibre Channel attached device. A Fibre Channel attached device is set in a quasi-open mode wherein the device summarily rejects most requests and allocates a minimal set of resources to operate the adapter. One request that is not rejected is an activation request received from another Fibre Channel attached device. When an activation request is received, an optional authentication process can be invoked to insure that only authenticated devices issue the activation command. An additional security feature can be used to restrict the devices authorized to activate a device. A list of devices can be stored on nonvolatile storage or in memory. When a requesting device has been authenticated, its address is checked against the list of approved devices before the device adapter is activated.