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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2010
Harish Deshmukh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sridhar Rajagopalan, Liverpool, GB;
Roger C. Raphael, San Jose, CA (US);
Chitrang Shah, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul S. Taylor, Redwood City, CA (US);
Harish Deshmukh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sridhar Rajagopalan, Liverpool, GB;
Roger C. Raphael, San Jose, CA (US);
Chitrang Shah, San Carlos, CA (US);
Paul S. Taylor, Redwood City, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for managing availability of a slave components executing in a distributed system. A master server and a heartbeat protocol may be provided. The heartbeat protocol may define state machines for the master server and/or the slave components. The master server and/or the slave components may act in accordance with the state machines to manage availability of the slave components in the distributed system.