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FLEXIBLE FAILOVER POLICIES IN HIGH AVAILABILITY COMPUTING SYSTEMS

  • US 20110214007A1
  • Filed: 09/27/2010
  • Published: 09/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for implementing a failover policy comprising:

  • a cluster infrastructure for managing a plurality of nodes arranged as one or more clusters;

    a high availability infrastructure for providing group and cluster membership services, wherein the high availability infrastructure defines a plurality of resource groups, wherein each resource group includes two or more interdependent resources; and

    a high availability script execution component operative to receive a failover script and at least one failover attribute and to produce a failover domain, wherein the failover domain is a list of nodes from the plurality of nodes on which a given resource group can be allocated;

    wherein the high availability script execution component selects a target node on receipt of notification of failure of a node and as a function of the failover domain, the failover attributes and the failover script.

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