Session key associated with communication path
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorCurtis C. Ballard
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Abstract
Techniques for associating a session key with a communication path are provided. A host may provide a session key to a library controller over a first communications path. The library controller may associate the communications path with the session key. In one aspect, commands received over the first communications path are associated with the session key. In another aspect, the session key may be associated with a second communications path when the communications path is to be changed.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a library controller, over a first communications path, a session key from a host;
- associating the session key with the first communications path;
- associating a first command received over the first communications path with the session key;
- and
- sending a nexus change command over a second communications path with the session key.
A non-transitory processor readable medium containing thereon a set of instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
- generate, at a host, a session key unique to the host;
- and
- send the session key to a library controller over a first communications path wherein the library controller associates the session key with the first communications path;
- and
- send a nexus change command over a second communications path with the session key to the library controller.
A device comprising:
- a media library;
- a media changer;
- and
- a media library controller, the media library controller to receive a session key from a host over a first communications path, and associate the session key with the first communications path, the media library controller further to receive a nexus change command including the session key over a second communications path, and to disassociate the session key from the first communications path and associate the session key with the second communications path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.