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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2007
Josep Cors, Rochester, MN (US);
Russel R. Garvey, Mantorville, MN (US);
Andrew T. Koch, Rochester, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Oronoco, MN (US);
Randall S. Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew T. Tauferner, Rochester, MN (US);
Eric Thiemann, Hayfield, MN (US);
Scott J. Timmerman, Rochester, MN (US);
Josep Cors, Rochester, MN (US);
Russel R. Garvey, Mantorville, MN (US);
Andrew T. Koch, Rochester, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Oronoco, MN (US);
Randall S. Nelson, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew T. Tauferner, Rochester, MN (US);
Eric Thiemann, Hayfield, MN (US);
Scott J. Timmerman, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the safe shut down of an operating system. The invention utilizes a shutdown-monitoring program that is running in an initiator operating system to periodically transmit and pass-through SCSI command to a SCSI target to determine if a shutdown operations is to be performed upon the operating system. In response to the SCSI command the SCSI target returns data back to the initiator operating system, wherein the shutdown-monitoring program analyzes the data. In the event that the shutdown-monitoring program determines that the operating system is to be shut down, then an operating system shutdown is initiated using at least one appropriate API that is provided by the operating system.