Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic registration of devices
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Application No.: US14923804Application Date: 2015-10-27
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Publication No.: US10560496B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Thomas J. Amber , Louie A. Dickens
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Exemplary methods, computer systems, and computer program products for automatic registration of devices in a computer environment are provided. In one embodiment, the computer environment is configured for monitoring a fibre channel. In response to one of a fabric login (FLOGI) and a fixed disk (Fdisk) received from one of an initiator and a target disk, executing each of an automatic name server registration, a state change registration, and a management server registration to identify at least one of the plurality of devices, and signing up one of the initiator and the target disk for the automatic name server registration, the state change registration, and the management server registration, wherein port initialization is eliminated for the initiator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160050239A1 AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF DEVICES Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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