US 2004/0205177 A1 · Soft system failure recovery for management consoles supporting ASF RMCP

Abstract

A management console in support of RMCP with RSP is provided with an enhanced management session create function that determines whether the creation of a management session with a managed remote client is being performed following a system failure, and to orchestrate a soft recover, on so determining. In one embodiment, the soft recovery includes sending an authenticated message to the managed remote client, using certain persistently saved session data of a prior open management session with the managed remote client, with the authenticated message being sent in a manner that circumvents the anti-replay protection mechanism of RSP.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a communication interface to facilitate communication with one or more managed remote clients;
and
a management console operationally coupled to the communication interface, to support a secure remote management protocol for securely managing the remote clients, including management session creation logic to create a management session for secure communication with a managed remote client, with the management session creation logic enhanced to be able to soft recover and re-establish a management session with a managed remote client having a prior open management session after a system failure, where at the time, secure management communication with the managed remote client is possible only under the prior open management session.

In a management console, a method of operation comprising:

receiving a request to create a management session for a managed remote client to facilitate secure communication with the managed remote client;
determining whether the request is being received after a system failure, with the managed remote client having a prior open management session, and secure communication with the managed remote client is only possible through the prior open management session;
and
orchestrating a soft recovery to re-establish a management session for secure communication with the managed remote client.

1 more element

An article of manufacture comprising:

a recordable medium;
and
a plurality of programming instructions recorded thereon, implementing a management console to enable an apparatus to support a secure remote management protocol for securely managing remote clients, including logic to create a management session for secure communication with a managed remote client, with the management session creation logic enhanced to be able to soft recover and re-establish a management session with a managed remote client having a prior open management session, after a system failure, where at the time, secure communication with the managed remote client is possible only under the prior open management session.

A system comprising:

a plurality of clients equipped to be managed in accordance with RMCP with RSP;
and
a management console coupled to the clients, and equipped to manage the clients in accordance with RMCP with RSP, including management session creation logic equipped to soft recover after a prior system crash.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/410,941Filed 9 Apr 2003

Published

14 Oct 2004

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

H04L 63/20
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for managing network security; network security policies in general
H04L 41/0654
Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications: using network fault recovery
H04L 69/40
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass: for…
H04L 41/40
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: using virtualisation of…

Soft system failure recovery for management consoles supporting ASF RMCP

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