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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2011
Douglas James Griffith, Georgetown, TX (US);
Astrid Angela Jaehde, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Scott Manning, Leander, TX (US);
Douglas James Griffith, Georgetown, TX (US);
Astrid Angela Jaehde, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Scott Manning, Leander, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A first component, executing in a first data processing system, receives, over a data communication network using a first adapter, a first diagnostic heartbeat packet from a second adapter in a second data processing system. The first heartbeat packet comprises a header, a set of heartbeat parameters, and a set of diagnostic attributes. The first component determines, based on a set of values corresponding to the set of diagnostic attributes, that a soft network error condition exists in the data communication network. The soft network error condition is a network error condition that adversely affects the transmission of packets having certain properties in the data communication network. The first component stores the set of values in a state information record associated with the first component and re-routes data traffic from one link to a different link between the first and the second data processing systems.