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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2008
Ashish L. Gawali, Maharastra, IN;
Subash Rajaa, Maharastra, IN;
Ashish L. Gawali, Maharastra, IN;
Subash Rajaa, Maharastra, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and system for improving failover within a high-availability computer system are provided. The method includes obtaining one or more parameters associated with at least one resource of any of the first cluster, second cluster and high-availability computer system. The method also includes detecting, as a function of the parameters, one or more anomalies of any of the first cluster, second cluster and high-availability computer system, wherein the at least one anomaly is a type that impacts the failover. These anomalies may include anomalies within the first and/or second clusters ('intra-cluster anomalies') and/or anomalies among the first and second clusters ('inter-cluster anomalies'). The method further includes generating an alert in response to detecting one or more of the anomalies.