Autonomic error recovery for a data breakout appliance at the edge of a mobile data network

An apparatus for a mobile data network comprising:

• a breakout appliance associated for communicating with a basestation that transmits and receives radio signals to and from user equipment, wherein the basestation is part of a radio access network that communicates with a core network in the mobile data network, the breakout system having an enclosure;
• the breakout system further comprising:
• a fail-to-wire (FTW) module with a primary network data path that connects an upstream computer to a downstream computer and a breakout network data path that connects the upstream computer system and the downstream computer system to the breakout system;
• a plurality of switches that switch between the primary network data path and the breakout network data path, wherein the switches in the inactivated state preserve the primary data path and in the activated state route input connections from the upstream computer and the downstream computer on the breakout data path to the breakout system;
• a control input to the switches driven by a system health signal that activates the plurality of switches to connect the breakout data path when the breakout system is operational;
• a health monitor that receives health inputs from a plurality of intelligent subsystems of the breakout system to determine errors in the breakout system;
• and
• an autonomic recovery mechanism that uses a combination of hardware recovery actions, software recovery actions and network recovery actions to recover from an error in the breakout system, and where the error is critical and non-recoverable the autonomic recovery mechanism drives the health signal to activate the plurality of switches and remove the breakout system from the mobile data network;
• wherein the software recovery actions include at least one of the following:
• restarting an application, querying a network management system to determine if there is an update available for a failing application and re-installing the application, and disabling the application;
• wherein the hardware recovery actions include at least one of the following:
• restarting a subsystem, controlling environmental systems, reducing users on broken out traffic on the breakout system, adjusting workload of the breakout system;
• and
• wherein the network recovery actions include at least one of the following:
• requesting the network management system to reduce the traffic to this breakout system, and offloading work to a neighboring breakout system.