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Method for event triggered monitoring of managed server health

  • US 7,152,185 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2003
  • Issued: 12/19/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring a server comprising:

  • providing a monitoring instance to monitor at least one server;

    providing a triggering event that causes the monitoring instance to monitor the at least one server;

    determining the health status of the at least one server by invoking a servlet located on the server, the servlet configured to return a health status of the server to the monitoring instance;

    detecting degenerate health status of the at least one server and determining whether to restart the at least one server upon the detection of the degenerate health;

    determining for a server having a health status of degenerated whether any conditions exist that may limit the at least one server from being restarted; and

    performing treatment on the server, the treatment corresponding with the health status of the server, by determining a value of an auto-kill parameter, the value specified in the auto-kill parameter corresponding to whether the monitoring instance will automatically kill a server if the server is deemed failed.

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