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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJosep Cors, Russel R. Garvey, Andrew T. Koch, Kyle A. Lucke, Randall S. Nelson, Andrew T. Tauferner, Eric Thiemann, Scott J. Timmerman
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The present invention relates to a method for the safe shut down of an operating system. The invention utilizes a shutdown-monitoring program that is running in an initiator operating system to periodically transmit and pass-through SCSI command to a SCSI target to determine if a shutdown operations is to be performed upon the operating system. In response to the SCSI command the SCSI target returns data back to the initiator operating system, wherein the shutdown-monitoring program analyzes the data. In the event that the shutdown-monitoring program determines that the operating system is to be shut down, then an operating system shutdown is initiated using at least one appropriate API that is provided by the operating system.
A method for the utilization of a SCSI target controller for the safe shutdown of an operating system using a standard SCSI initiator, the method further comprising the steps of:
A computer program product that includes a computer readable medium useable by a processor, the medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes a SCSI target controller to safely shut down an operating system using a standard SCSI initiator, wherein the computer program product executes the steps of:
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