A system and method for remotely waking up a Fibre Channel attached device. A
Fibre
Channel attached device is set in a quasi-open mode wherein the device summarily
rejects most requests and allocates a minimal set of resources to operate the adapter.
One request that is not rejected is an activation request received from another
Fibre Channel attached device. When an activation request is received, an optional
authentication process can be invoked to insure that only authenticated devices
issue the activation command. An additional security feature can be used to restrict
the devices authorized to activate a device. A list of devices can be stored on
nonvolatile storage or in memory. When a requesting device has been authenticated,
its address is checked against the list of approved devices before the device adapter
is activated.
