Abstract: A system is provided for systematically checking for and retrieving data from a known, public system to a system inside company firewall restraints while being able to function automatically once initial set up is complete. This data is then processed and stored into an internal database for the express purpose of allowing timely access to stability and configuration information.

Abstract: A series of Window screens are provided with queries to gather customer data for the customer's enterprise operations. Data on site locations, number of users, types of users and Application Programs utilized and their relationships are accumulated into a Configuration Session Database which serves as a foundation of the Customer's Profile which can later be used to configure a suitable design of Server Farms for the customer.

Abstract: A method and procedure is established for utilization in a Thin Client Sizing Tool which has established an optimized solution of one or more Server Farms to fit a customer's profile. Part of implementing this solution is the provision of establishing adequate memory for the Server Farm or group of Server Farms. A methodology is provided whereby each operating system is correlated to each User type which is correlated to each application and then increased by the number of particular User types and the number of applications involved in order to establish the total memory requirements for a Server Farm or Metafarm.

Abstract: A method is provided for generating a configuration solution such as for a Server Farm or a Server Metafarm which can be optimally designed and configured after information has been developed on the customer's profile and there has been calculated a base solution indicating the appropriate number of servers, proper disk space and memory requirements.

Abstract: A Thin Client Sizing Tool provides a method for developing a proposal for an optimized Server Farm, or collection of Server Farms, which will provide the most suitable configuration for each specialized enterprise of a customer.

Abstract: A Cellular Multi-Processor Serve provides partitions having different Operating Systems such as Windows, Unix OS2200 (Unisys), Master Control Program (Unisys) or other Operating Systems, which could be designated as OS-A or OS-B. The present method and system collects and scans availability and reliability information which involve non-windows partitions with respect to planned and unplanned stops, system starts and different categories of error conditions.

Abstract: A Thin Client Sizer, used to configure an optimal Server Farm, requires specific data regarding the category level of utilization, by each User, of each of the Applications available to the Server Farm. A method is presented for input to a Solution Configurator to select and categorize each User-Type User as to add in his utilization of each Application used in the Server Farm.

Abstract: A method for sizing Server Farms and developing an Metafarm which allocates the optimum number of Users to each Server Farm in the complex while also providing an optimized configuration of Server Farms having a desired Availability Level and suitable redundancy to fulfill the requirements and needs in a customer's enterprise.

Abstract: A fiber optic channel loop provides a transmission path between a computer platform and a multiple number of peripheral devices. When any change occurs in the number of connected peripheral devices or their operation status, then Fiber Channel loop is interrupted so to disable ongoing Input/Output operations to a targeted peripheral device. When this interruption is sensed, the Master Control Program of the platform will institute corrective measures to re-originate any interrupted I/O operations.

Abstract: Using the accumulated magnetic tape statistics in a storage medium (Sumlog File) which were retrieved from the unloading of specifically selected magnetic tape media, of a magnetic tape peripheral, a procedure is instituted to take the tape statistics through a Log Analyzer unit to analyze certain pages of data which then is fed to a Jobformatter unit which organizes each page of data into Write errors, Read errors, and other tape statistics returned by the tape peripheral. The Jobformatter sets-up a display of this information onto a display terminal or a printer.

Abstract: In order to overcome the situation in magnetic tape drives, where an unload command would wipe-out the tape statistics so that no data would then be available which would indicate errors and other tape defects, there has been developed a system and method which permits the retrieval and storage of tape statistics in a Sumlog file. Specialized algorithmic sequences are used to initiate a Rewind/Unload tape request that invokes a COLLECT_TAPE_STATS procedure, (or else to an error handling procedure as a result of a counter overflow condition) which calls a COLLECT_LOG_SENSE_DATA procedure which then collects tape statistics for deposit into a recording medium.