Selection and configuration of servers

• US 8,819,196 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2002
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Deboer, Timothy G., Francis, Timothy M., Wosnick, Sheldon B., Yuen, Siu Chung
• Primary Examiner(s): Taha, Shaq
• Application Number:
  US10/478,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20040133665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,498 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221, 709/220, 709/239, 713/100
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5055 considering software capabilities, i.e. software resources associated or available to the machine

Abstract

The invention provides a mechanism for convenient management for configuring and selecting servers for running modules. The invention provides a method for managing a plurality of servers including receiving a request to configure a suitable server being suitable for running a module, locating an identifier of the suitable server from a table comprising identifiers of suitable servers, configuring the suitable server to run the module.

Claims

1. A method for selecting and configuring suitable servers to run various software modules in a software development environment comprising:

receiving a request to run a software module developed in the development environment;

determining whether there is a server currently configured to run the software module;

in response to a determination that there is no server currently configured to run the software module, determining whether a priority table includes, in a list of identified servers ordered in a preferred hierarchy in the software development environment, an identifier of a suitable server being suitable for running the software module, the preferred hierarchy including, in a topmost positioned, a user-identified server;

in response to determining that there is no identifier of the suitable server in the priority table, identifying a type of suitable server that is configurable to run the software module from a backup table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a type of software module and an corresponding identifier of a type of server capable of supporting the type of software module; and

configuring the suitable server based on the identified type to run the software module.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing the configured suitable server to run the software module.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the priority table identifies

a prioritized suitable server;

inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server; and

,

configuring the prioritized suitable server being identified from the priority table to run the software module.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the priority table comprises prioritized identifiers of suitable servers.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon determining that the existence of the server currently configured to run the software module and also determining that there is the server is suitably configured to run the software module, inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server.

6. A computer program product for use in a computer system operatively coupled to a computer readable memory, the computer program product including a computer-readable data storage device tangibly embodying computer readable program code for directing said computer to select and configure servers to run various software modules in a software development environment, said computer readable program code, when executed by the computer system, causes the computer system to perform the steps comprising:

receiving a request to run a software module developed in the development environment;

determining whether there is a server currently configured to run the software module;

in response to a determination that there is no server currently configured to run the software module, determining whether a priority table includes, in a list of identified servers ordered in a preferred hierarchy in the software development environment, an identifier of a suitable server being suitable for running the software module, the preferred hierarchy including, in a topmost positioned, a user-identified server, identifying a type of suitable server that is configurable to run the software module from a backup table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a type of software module and an corresponding identifier of a type of server capable of supporting the type of software module; and

configuring the suitable server based on the identified type to run the software module.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

computer readable program code for instructing said computer system to execute the configured suitable server to run the software module.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

computer readable program code for determining that the priority table identifies;

a prioritized suitable server;

computer readable program code for inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server; and

,

computer readable program code for configuring the prioritized suitable server being identified from the priority table to run the software module.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the priority table comprises prioritized identifiers of suitable servers.

10. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

upon determining that the existence of the server currently configured to run the software module and also determining that there is the server is suitably configured to run the software module, computer readable program code for inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server.

11. A computer system operatively coupled to a computer readable memory, the computer system for selecting and configuring suitable servers to run various software modules in a software development environment, the computer system comprising:

a processor configured to perform the steps including

receiving a request to run a software module developed in the development environment;

determining whether there is a server currently configured to run the software module;

in response to a determination that there is no server currently configured to run the software module, determining whether a priority table includes, in a list of identified servers ordered in a preferred hierarchy in the software development environment, an identifier of a suitable server being suitable for running the software module, the preferred hierarchy including, in a topmost positioned, a user-identified server;

in response to determining that there is no identifier of the suitable server in the priority table, identifying a type of suitable server that is configurable to run the software module from a backup table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a type of software module and an corresponding identifier of a type of server capable of supporting the type of software module; and

configuring the suitable server based on the identified type to run the software module.

12. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the processor of the computer system is further configured to execute the configured suitable server to run the software module.

13. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the processor of the computer system is further configured to perform the steps including:

determining that the priority table identifies

a prioritized suitable server;

inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server; and

,

configuring the prioritized suitable server being identified from the priority table to run the software module.

14. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the priority table comprises prioritized identifiers of suitable servers.

15. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the processor of the computer system is further configured to perform the steps including:

upon determining that the existence of the server currently configured to run the software module and also determining that there is the server is suitably configured to run the software module, inserting the identifier of the suitable server into a preferred table, the preferred table comprising pairs of data, each pair of data including an identifier of a software module and an corresponding identifier of a preferred suitable server.