Client assisted autonomic computing
US7657779B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 18, 2002 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 2, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/2023
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method, system and apparatus for server failure diagnosis and self-healing in a server farm. An autonomic server farm which has been configured in accordance with the inventive arrangements can include a multiplicity of servers enabled to respond to requests received from clients which are external to the server farm. A resource director such as an IP sprayer or a network dispatcher can be configured to route requests to selected ones of the servers, in accordance with resource allocation algorithms such as random, round-robin and least recently used. Significantly, unlike conventional server farms whose management of failure diagnosis and self-healing relies exclusively upon the capabilities of the resource director, in the present invention, client-assisted failure detection logic can be coupled to the resource director so as to provide client-assisted management of failure diagnosis and self-healing.
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