Abstract: Detecting system component failures in a computing system, including: detecting, by an illumination detector, the occurrence of an illumination event in the computing system; determining, by an illumination event identifier, whether the illumination event is associated with a suspected component failure in the computing system; and sending, by a notification system, a failure event notification upon determining that the illumination event is associated with a suspected component failure in the computing system.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method and system for high-volume distributed script error report handling. An error report group threshold may be obtained. The error report group threshold may be determined by available computing resources, at an error facility, to receive error reports. A subset of current user terminals with representative user terminal environments may be identified. The subset may have a cardinality less than the error report group threshold. Members of the subset may be notified to report errors for a distributed program.

Abstract: Testing systems and methods are operable to perform diagnostic testing of a remote electronic device under test (DUT). An exemplary embodiment establishes a communication link between a diagnostic test device and the electronic DUT, receives a plurality of diagnostic commands from the electronic DUT, each of the plurality of diagnostic commands defined by at least one device diagnostic instruction (DDI) and a corresponding DDI description; generates a diagnostics script based upon selection of at least one of the diagnostic commands, wherein the generated diagnostics script includes at least one return device diagnostic instruction (RDDI) corresponding to the selected at least one diagnostic command; and transmits the at least one RDDI from the diagnostic test device to the DUT.

Abstract: A method for displaying backup-status information for computing resources. The method may include (1) identifying at least one protected resource that is scheduled to be backed up periodically, (2) identifying a request to view backup-status information for the protected resource, (3) in response to the request, identifying each backup of the protected resource that was scheduled to occur during a prior window of time, (4) determining whether each scheduled backup of the protected resource was successful, and (5) displaying, within a graphical user interface, a visual backup status indicator for the protected resource for the prior window of time, wherein the visual backup status indicator visually indicates whether any scheduled backups of the protected resource failed during the prior window of time. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for operating a bus system, in particular a CAN bus is disclosed. Several stations can be connected to the bus system. A transmitted message has an identifier, wherein a certain identifier (for example, IDENT) always may be used only by a single station. Each of the stations compares the identifier of a transmitted message with the identifiers the station itself uses (for example, IDENT2). An error message is produced in the event of a match.

Abstract: A method of transmitting raw data by a data acquisition system in a CT scanning system, wherein the CT scanning system comprises a rotational part of a gantry with at least one raw data backup memory, and wherein the data acquisition system is configured to adopt the at least one backup memory for storing a backup of the raw data. The method comprising: generating the raw data as scanned; storing generated raw data in the at least one backup memory; transmitting the raw data to an operation console in the CT scanning system; and repeating generating, storing, and transmitting of the raw data in the case of an unfinished scan, until the unfinished scan is finished.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic allocation of network security credentials for alert notification recipients are provided. Embodiments include receiving from a managed system, by an alert management system, an alert indicating one of a failure in the managed system and a pending failure in the managed system; selecting, by the alert management system, a remote device from a plurality of remote devices registered for remote access with the alert management system; preapproving, by the alert management system, network security clearance of the selected remote device, the network security clearance for remote access to the management system via a virtual private network (VPN) interface; and transmitting to the selected remote device, by the alert management system, an alert notification that includes an internet address corresponding to the VPN interface.

Abstract: Approaches for problem determination and resolution process cross communication are provided. Embodiments provide cross communication of a problem determination and resolution among similar data center devices. Specifically, symptoms of an error condition encountered for one data center device are captured by a first enterprise group, along with an associated resolution solution, and made available to an another enterprise group managing a commonly configured data center device, which may be faced with a similar error condition. The error signature and resolution steps captured by the first enterprise group are subsequently made available within and across multiple management domains operating within a common model (e.g., a publication-subscription system). Within this model, both the originator of the error determination and resolution (i.e., publisher), and one or more commonly configured data center devices susceptible to the same error condition (i.e.

Abstract: A method of controlling a play-out of media content in a UPnP network from a control point, wherein the media content has been delivered from a media server to a remote rendering device. Upon having establishing a UPnP remote access connection between the control point and the rendering device, the control point invokes a UPnP action at the rendering device, in response to a user interaction. The control point also initiates a subscription of a state variable at the rendering device, and starts a timer, which will indicate the time that has elapsed since the initiation of the subscription. The control point will regard the UPnP action as a successful action in case it recognises a predefined state variable transition, prior to the expiry of the timeout value, ors a failed action, in case no such predefined state variable transition has been recognised upon expiry of the time out value. The result of the UPnP action is provided to the user as a notification.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sending failure information from a solid state drive (SSD) to a host device. In operation, an error is detected during an operation associated with a solid state drive. Additionally, a command is received for failure information from a host device. Further, the failure information is sent from the solid state drive to the host device, the failure information including failure information associated with the solid state drive.

Abstract: A communication control device controls communication between a BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller). The device includes a processor that performs a process of an OS (Operating System) and a process of the BIOS. When a communication request for communication with the BMC occurs from the BIOS or OS, the processor performs a process associated with the communication request by dividing it into a first process and a second process. The first process is configured to store contents of the communication request and make the OS restart a process without performing the communication between the BIOS and the BMC in response to the communication request. The second process is configured to actually perform the communication between the BIOS and the BMC in response to the stored communication request.

Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus (1) including: an acquisition unit (10) that acquires failure information indicating that a failure has occurred in any of a plurality of monitoring targets; a notification job determination unit (20) that determines whether or not a predetermined user has to be notified of the failure which is specified by the failure information; and a display unit (40) that displays failure notification information indicating occurrence of the failure when the acquisition unit (10) acquires the failure information, and displays notification job information indicating that there is a job to notify the failure to a predetermined user when the notification job determination unit (20) determines that notification has to be issued.

Abstract: A user of a mobile station can report a mobile station issue by transmitting a report including a description of the mobile station issue and other information for rapid troubleshooting and resolution by a manufacturer, through a wireless mobile communication network, to the manufacturer of the mobile station or its software, via a life cycle management tool program at a network. The report sent by the user of the mobile station may include information relating to the description of the mobile station issue, mobile station device information, device operation information, diagnostic logs, or captured screenshots. The life cycle management tool program stores the report including the information and sends an electronic notification to a technical center of a carrier and/or the manufacturer of the mobile station or its software for review and resolution of the reported mobile station issue in real time.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing automated problem reporting in elements used in conjunction with computer networks are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of elements that perform data migration operations and a reporting manager or monitor agent which monitors the elements and data migration operations. Upon detection of hardware or software problems, the reporting manager or monitor agent automatically communicates with elements affected by the problem to gather selected hardware, software, and configuration information, analyzes the information to determine causes of the problem, and issues a problem report containing at least a portion of the selected information. The problem report is communicated to a remote monitor that does not possess access privileges to the elements, allowing automated, remote monitoring of the elements without compromising security of the computer network or elements.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which make it possible to confirm an error recovery event. A device proxy server as an information processing apparatus is connected to a printer and a client PC via a network. The device proxy server receives an event message indicative of an event having occurred in a printer. The received event message is transferred to a client PC. When the event message transferred to the client PC is related to an error event indicative of an error having occurred in the printer, the device proxy server monitors whether or not the error event has been eliminated in the printer. When the error event is eliminated in the printer, the device proxy server sends an error recovery message indicative of elimination of the error event to the client PC.

Abstract: A method and system for testing and logging execution events of software delivered to a user. The user can launch and run the software product while having the support and a necessary input from the product developer. A software product is provided from a first remote server and executed on a user computer, while execution statistics are collected and analyzed by a second remote server. The software product is used in a virtual execution environment. The software product is executed on a Guest Operating System (GOS) also installed on the user computer. A hypervisor-level monitoring of tested software products and GOSs is implemented.

Abstract: Embodiments of an invention for signaling software recoverable errors are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes a first unit, a programmable indicator, and a second unit. The first unit is to detect a poison error. The programmable indicator is to indicate whether the poison error is signaled as a machine check error or as one of a fault and a system management interrupt. The second unit is to signal the poison error as one of a fault and a system management error responsive to the programmable indicator.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system operable for alerting an operator to failures associated with critical resource consumption and comprises: a resource monitoring component for monitoring resource consumption; a threshold setting component for setting a threshold of resource consumption between an average resource consumption value and a critical resource consumption value; a diagnostic data collection component; and a threshold crossing detection component; wherein the diagnostic data collection component is operable, in response to the threshold crossing detection component detecting a threshold crossing, to start or stop diagnostic data collection.

Abstract: In a method for intelligently monitoring and dispatching an Information Technology (IT) service alert, a computer receives a service error alert and classifies the service error alert. The computer assigns the service error alert, based on the service error alert class. The computer monitors the progress of the resolution of the service error alert.

Abstract: A file system for a stage lighting system that maintains the different files associated with the stage lighting system. Each of the files that can represent an effect are maintained within the system within a configuration file. The configuration file can be updated on each start of the system so that the system can maintain information indicative of current configuration files. A test mode can also be entered in which a pre-formed show can be tested against the current state of the configuration files.

Abstract: A hosting provider operates a server system that provides a service to one or more tenants. The server system receives configuration data from the tenants. As part of providing the service to a given tenant, the server system attempts to access an external service due to the configuration data received from the given tenant identifying the external service. Service access errors can occur when attempting to access the external service. In response to determining that an error has occurred when attempting to access the external service, the server system sends a service access alert to a recipient associated with the given tenant. The service access alert notifies the recipient that the error has occurred.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for configurable alert delivery in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include for each alert generated by an incident analyzer, applying active alert filters to the alert; wherein applying the active alert filters to the alert includes: creating a list of all active alert filters and a set of all active listeners; and for each active alert filter, running the active alert filter; if the active alert filter indicates that the alert should not go to one or more of the active listeners, removing the one or more active listeners from the set of all active listeners; if the active listeners set is empty, stopping processing of the alert; and if the active listeners set is not empty, selecting the next active alert filter from the active alert filter list.

Abstract: An event notification method for distributed processing systems provides remote and local node event notification in systems that require local registration of an event consumer in order produce an event notifications. To provide notification of an event occurring on a remote node, either event consumers on all nodes in the cluster register locally to receive event notifications and specify that the event is a cluster event, in which case the nodes send notification of their locally-occurring events to all nodes, or remote registrations are accepted at nodes and if a local consumer for the event is not present, a listener thread registers as an event consumer. The listener thread sends the event notifications to the remote nodes registered as consumers for the event by observing communication between the event producer and the local consumer, or receiving the event notifications directly if there is no local consumer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving data input to one or more apparatuses; a data storage unit storing the data with a determined display position thereof in a display screen; a log storage unit storing a data change as a log; an association unit monitoring a communication status of a communication with the one or more apparatuses, and associating information indicating an apparatus where a communication error occurs and a timing when the communication occurs with the log; a recording unit recording video of the data change displayed in the display screen from when the communication error occurs until when the communication is recovered for an apparatus; and a transmission unit transmitting the video from an event when the communication error occurs until an event when the communication is recovered and the log to the apparatus.

Abstract: In a method for intelligently monitoring and dispatching an Information Technology (IT) service alert, a computer receives a service error alert and classifies the service error alert. The computer assigns the service error alert, based on the service error alert class. The computer monitors the progress of the resolution of the service error alert.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a test case run analyzer may filter out failure events with known causes from a test report. The test case run analyzer may receive a test report of a test case run of an application process. The test case run analyzer may automatically identify a failure event in the test case run. The test case run analyzer may automatically compare the failure event to a failure pattern set. The test case run analyzer may filter the test report based on the failure pattern set.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting alarm conditions, the method involving receiving at a first time a trigger notification describing a monitored occurrence on a network; setting a redundancy window to begin at the first time and to end at an expiration time; designating a first alarm condition to represent the trigger notification; receiving a second notification at a second time after the first time, the second notification describing the monitored occurrence; and determining whether a second alarm condition exists by testing whether the second time is within the redundancy window.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for remotely managing a self-service terminal. The apparatus and methods may involve a receiver module configured to receive an input from a self-service device, a computational module and a transmission module. The input may include information regarding a fault-related event. The computational module may determine whether an index corresponding to the fault-related event exceeds a predetermined threshold based on fault-related events. The transmission module may send an electronic notification of a possible self-service device operational failure if the index exceeds the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An embedded apparatus displaying an error message upon detection of a failure during execution of a program includes a central processing unit executing the program; a program storage unit storing an executable compressed file where plural files are combined as the program; a failure detection unit detecting a failure based on storage contents of addresses storing execution results of instructions; and an error message display unit outputting the error message on a display device when the failure detection unit detects the failure, the error message including version information of the program, file identification information of the file, and line numbers of the instruction being executed in the file, the error message being described in the instruction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for distributing fault information from a lower level network management node to a higher level network management node in a network management architecture comprising modules logically representing network nodes and network links under management. The higher level network management node subscribes to at least some detailed fault information. And, a notification comprising a summary of fault information sent by the lower level network management node is received by the higher level network management node. Then, the higher level network management node retrieves the subscribed detailed fault information from said received notification.

Abstract: A method of operating a test equipment system that is coupled to network circuitry is described. The method displays only selected information. Furthermore, the method may display the selected information in a manner as to allow a user of the test equipment to easily identify errors in the network circuitry. The method may select the information to be displayed by processing received signals according to a stacked protocol hierarchical structure.

Abstract: A system for troubleshooting control programs employs an event log that captures the values of inputs to outputs from the control program only at event times determined by changes in input or output data. The program allows the event log to be reviewed in jumps to only events which cause a change in output value of an instruction or particular change in output value of a particular instruction, greatly simplifying the troubleshooting process. The event log records a particular instruction instance associated with the event permitting the operation of the program to be studied in reverse order. The event log may also record a timestamp of the event allowing time stamped data from different devices to be synchronized with the review of the events.

Abstract: Described herein are systems related to a visual tool for providing a dynamic and accessible collaborative environment during a production outage or network downtime. An outage management tool comprising a server application tool receiving and storing monitoring data related to an operation of a network and application-level components of the network, wherein the monitoring data includes outage information corresponding to one of the network and the application-level components, and a visualization tool generating an interactive representation of the network including the outage information, the visualization tool and generating, in response to a request, an adjusted interactive representation of the network including application-level components affected by an outage and event traffic related to the outage.

Abstract: A method, system, and/or computer program product encodes diagnostic data in an error message for a computer program. In response to an error in the processing of a computer program, a predetermined set of diagnostic data associated with the error is selected. The predetermined set of diagnostic data is encoded in an image, and the image is displayed in association with an error message for the error.

Abstract: A method for saving crash dump files of a virtual machine (VM) on a designated disk is disclosed. The method includes associating, by a hypervisor that virtualizes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), each VM of the plurality of VMs with a crash dump disk that is solely dedicated to the VM, wherein each crash dump disk is located separate from its associated VM. The method further includes configuring, by the hypervisor, an OS of each VM with a crash file path to the crash dump disk associated with the VM, and configuring, by the hypervisor, each VM of the plurality of VMs to generate crash dump files for the VM upon a crash event of the VM and store, via the crash file path, the generated crash dump files to the crash dump disk associated with the VM.

Abstract: A network management system utilizes an element manager at the RNC level to reduce the workload and efficiently manage multiple wireless appliances in a mobile data network. Management communications from the network management system flow through the element manager to all devices under the RNC level appliance hosting the element manager. The element manager provides for fault management, performance monitoring and configuration of the many breakout appliances and reports necessary information back to the network management system.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes computer implemented methods, computer systems, and computer readable mediums for recursively testing an OData service. One method may include extracting resource identifiers from an initial service document, and for each of the resource identifiers, retrieving a respective response document from the OData service. The method may further include applying a test function to each of the resource identifiers and respective response documents and recording a result of the test function for each of the resource identifiers. The method may further include recursively extracting new resource identifiers from the response documents and retrieving respective new response documents for each new resource identifier from the OData service until no additional resource identifiers are extracted from the new response documents.

Abstract: A method for computer system recovery is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a connection, via an interface, to a computer system to support the system recovery of the computer system. The method includes executing an emulation application as a recovery agent. The method includes retrieving, based on identifiers associated with the computer system, remote data via another interface. The method further includes performing the system recovery by using at least a part of the remote data.

Abstract: A method, system and machine-readable storage medium for providing fault tolerance in a distributed mobile architecture (dMA) system. The method includes receiving a message or failing to receive the message within a predetermined time relating to a first dMA gateway (dMAG) at a second dMAG. It is determined whether the first dMAG is not operational or is otherwise offline based on the received message or the failure to receive the message. One or more dMA nodes associated with the first dMAG are notified in order to request connections to an external system via the second dMAG. The external system is also notified to request connections to one or more dMA nodes associated with the first dMAG via the second dMAG.

Abstract: A device (102) supports error correction. A receiver (120) is configured to receive data over a communications link. A decapsulator (122) is coupled to the receiver and configured to create datagrams. A decoder (124) is coupled to the decapsulator and configured to store the datagrams in a table and to create codewords, the decoder storing the datagrams in table columns to create codewords in table rows. A user interface (126) is coupled to the decoder and configured to render images corresponding with the datagrams on the user interface. Advantages of the invention include efficient signal processing and prolonged battery life in mobile wireless devices.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method and system for high-volume distributed script error report handling. A group of user terminals may be selected to report errors, where the group of user terminals is a subset of user terminals having open user session and the group of user terminals is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. An error report, generated by a user terminal in response to a script error, may then be received, where the user terminal is in the group of user terminals selected to report errors. The received error report may then be processed to create a processed error report. The processed error report may then be presented to a service user.

Abstract: Network survivability is quantified in such a way that failure cases can be compared and ranked against each other in terms of the severity of their impact on the various performance measures associated with the network. The degradation in network performance caused by each failure is quantified based on user-defined sets of thresholds of degradation severity for each performance measure. Each failure is simulated using a model of the network, and a degradation vector is determined for each simulated failure. A comparison function is defined to map the degradation vectors into an ordered set, and this ordered set is used to create an ordered list of network failures, in order of the network degradation caused by each failure.

Abstract: An event notification system for distributed processing systems provides remote and local node event notification in systems that require local registration of an event consumer in order produce an event notifications. To provide notification of an event occurring on a remote node, either event consumers on all nodes in the cluster register locally to receive event notifications and specify that the event is a cluster event, in which case the nodes send notification of their locally-occurring events to all nodes, or remote registrations are accepted at nodes and if a local consumer for the event is not present, a listener thread registers as an event consumer. The listener thread sends the event notifications to the remote nodes registered as consumers for the event by observing communication between the event producer and the local consumer, or receiving the event notifications directly if there is no local consumer.

Abstract: A method and system for processing input media for provision to a text to speech engine comprising: a rules engine configured to maintain and update rules for processing the input media; a pre-parsing filter module configured to determine one or more metadata attributes using pre-parsing rules; a parsing filter module configured to identify content component from the input media using the parsing rules; a context and language detector configured to determine a default context and a default language; a learning agent configured to divide the content component into units of interest; a tagging module configured to iteratively assign tags to the units of interest using the tagging rules, wherein each tag is associated with a post-parsing rule; a post-parsing filter module configured to modify the content component by executing the post-parsing rules identified by the tags assigned to the phrases and strings.

Abstract: A request is received by a first computer. The first computer delegates the first request to a second computer. The second computer attempts to process the first request and identifies an imminent fault as a result of the attempt. The second computer sends a message to the first computer indicating an imminent fault as a result of the attempted processing of the first request. The first computer sends a message to a third computer indicating that a second request matching the first request should not be processed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses method and system for debugging, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions of debugging. The method includes when a loophole is detected, determining whether a network is online; if yes, fixing the loophole; otherwise, prompting a user to make the network online, and fixing the loophole when the network is online, so as to avoid debugging failure caused by a failure of patch downloading when the network is offline, thereby reducing the failure rate of debugging.

Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a memory device and a method of operating same.

Abstract: Method and application server for providing an asynchronous error notification from an application server to an application server controller in a network is provided. The method at the application server includes generating an error message when an error occurs at/during Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework runtime. The method also includes converting the error message as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) event. Moreover, the method includes providing the UPnP event comprising error information to the application server controller. The application server includes a receiver configured to receive a command from an application server controller to install an application in an Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework available at the application server. The application server also includes a processor configured to generate an error message when an error occurs during installation of the application in the framework and convert the error message as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) event.

Abstract: Remediating events of components using behaviors via an administrator system and an administrator client. The administrator system receives an event from a component of an information technology (IT) environment. A behavior is determined at least partly from the event. The behavior is determined to be an anomalous behavior at least partly from a group of previously received events. A coefficient is calculated, via a calculation, for the anomalous behavior at least partly from a weight. The administrator system sends a description of the anomalous behavior and a group of options to the administrator client. The description is at least partly based on the calculation. The administrator system receives a severity indication from the administrator client. The weight, the calculation, and the description are updated based on the severity indication.

Abstract: In a numerical control system including a plurality of data communication apparatuses and a numerical controller that transmits and receives data to and from the data communication apparatuses, a filter circuit is removably attached to each of a connection unit of the numerical controller and connection units of the data communication apparatuses. By detecting an error information based on a data transfer error or the sign of the data transfer error, a filter circuit that needs to be replaced is specified. Thus, the noise immunity of only a required portion of the filter circuits is increased, as a result, it is possible to suppress the cost for noise reduction while increasing the noise immunity of the entire system.