Symantec Corporation

Symantec Operating Corporation

Kalyani Sundaralingam

Ashish Laxmanrao Gawali

Anantharaman Ganesh

Amit Haridas Rangari

Arindam Mukherjee

Sirisha Suryanarayan Kalpa

A method for defining and managing a composite service group for a cluster based computer system is disclosed. The method includes instantiating a plurality of application units on a cluster based computer system, wherein the application units implement a business service. The method further includes receiving a composite service group definition, wherein a composite service group enumerates application units, out of the plurality of application units, that implement the business service, and generating a consolidated status of the composite service group. The business service is then started (online)/stopped (offline)/migrated/failed-over/failed-back in accordance with the consolidated status, as a single unit, by using the composite service group.

System and method to define, visualize and manage a composite service group in a high-availability disaster recovery environment

A system and method for detecting a state change of a resource in a high availability (HA) cluster are disclosed. The method comprises registering to receive notification when the resource changes state. The method further comprises receiving a notification of a state change of the resource and automatically performing one or more actions to ensure high availability of the first resource in response to the notification.

High availability cluster with notification of resource state changes

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Kalyani Sundaralingam