Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises a substitute manager component that upon failure of a first manager component, obtains management responsibility for a distributed software application from the first manager component and queries one or more software components of the distributed software application for state information of the one or more software components. The substitute manager component employs the state information to determine whether one or more recovery actions are needed for the distributed software application to recover from the failure of the first manager component.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 14, 2004
Date of Patent:
June 10, 2008
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc.
Inventors:
Richard W. Buskens, Oscar J. Gonzalez, Li Kuang, Tim T. Liim, Sunil K. Mishra, Yansong J. Ren, Muhammad A. Siddiqui