METHOD FOR ENABLING FASTER RECOVERY OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS IN THE EVENT OF SERVER FAILURE

    公开(公告)号:CA2706579C

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-19

    申请号:CA2706579

    申请日:2009-03-10

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A system and method are provided for improving recovery times in fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sending notification of the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a client application running on a client node, to the client application. In the present invention, this notification is provided by the fallover node acting as backup for the server node. When a client application receives no response from a server for a long time, it assumes that the server has failed and initiates reconnection. The present invention speeds-up the reconnect initiated by the client application by having system level software proactively notify the client application about the server failure. This results in faster recovery for client applications.

    METHOD FOR ENABLING FASTER RECOVERY OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS IN THE EVENT OF SERVER FAILURE

    公开(公告)号:CA2706579A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-08

    申请号:CA2706579

    申请日:2009-03-10

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A system and method are provided for improving recovery times in fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sending notification of the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a client application running on a client node, to the client application. In the present invention, this notification is provided by the fallover node acting as backup for the server node. When a client application receives no response from a server for a long time, it assumes that the server has failed and initiates reconnection. The present invention speeds-up the reconnect initiated by the client application by having system level software proactively notify the client application about the server failure. This results in faster recovery for client applications.

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