Detecting system component failures in a computing system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPaul D. Kangas, Daniel M. Ranck
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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.
Claims22
A method of detecting system component failures in a computing system, the method comprising:
- 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.
Apparatus for detecting system component failures in a computing system, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
- 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.
A computer program product for detecting system component failures in a computing system, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a signal, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
- 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.