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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yogesh A. Bute, Pune, IN;
Hemant K. Shukla, Jabalpur, IN;
Vinod K. Srivastava, Pune, IN;
Sandip P. Thube, Pune, IN;
Dharmesh V. Vadgama, Pune, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for a client-initiated leader election in a distributed system including receiving a master listener election request by at least one listener of a plurality of listeners in the distributed system, arranging a list of configured listeners in a descending priority order, the list of configured listeners comprises one or more listeners of the plurality of listeners set for connection, selecting a listener with a highest priority from the list of configured listeners, determining an availability of the selected listener, verifying a connectivity to the selected listener using a ping utility program, assigning the selected listener as a master listener based on the connectivity, and connecting to the master listener.