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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Keith M. Campbell, Cary, NC (US);
Patrick L. Caporale, Cary, NC (US);
Caroline M. Metry, Cary, NC (US);
Pravin S. Patel, Cary, NC (US);
Keith M. Campbell, Cary, NC (US);
Patrick L. Caporale, Cary, NC (US);
Caroline M. Metry, Cary, NC (US);
Pravin S. Patel, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Managing stability of a link coupling an adapter of a computing system to a port of a networking device for in-band data communications, the adapter and the network device coupled for out-of-band data communications to a management module, where link stability is managed by: monitoring link health including retrieving adapter link statistics from the adapter and networking device link statistics from the networking device; determining, in dependence upon the adapter and networking device link statistics, whether the link health meets predefined health acceptability criteria; and if the link health does not meet predefined health acceptability criteria, instructing the adapter to execute one or more predefined corrective actions.