Abstract: A shared system resource such as a file server includes an integrated, cooperative cluster of domains that include hierarchically related domains and peer related domains, each performing functions supporting the services provided by the system resource. Hierarchically related domains include a higher level domain and a lower level domain respectively performing higher and lower level operations of functions supporting the system resource services and peer related domains include parallel domains performing operations in mutual support of functions supporting the system resource services. A domain may include fault handling mechanisms operating independently of and cooperatively with fault handling mechanisms of other domains, and domain may be comprised of domains.

Abstract: A shared system resoure such as a file server includes an integrated, cooperative cluster of domains that include hierarchically related domains and peer related domains, each performing functions supporting the services provided by the system resource. Hierarchically related domains include a higher level domain and a lower level domain respectively performing higher and lower level operations of functions supporting the system resource services and peer related domains include parallel domains performing operations in mutual support of functions supporting the system resource services. A domain may include fault handling mechanisms operating independently of and cooperatively with fault handling mechanisms of other domains, and domain may be comprised of domains.

Abstract: A shared system resoure such as a file server includes an integrated, cooperative cluster of domains that include hierarchically related domains and peer related domains, each performing functions supporting the services provided by the system resource. Hierarchically related domains include a higher level domain and a lower level domain respectively performing higher and lower level operations of functions supporting the system resource services and peer related domains include parallel domains performing operations in mutual support of functions supporting the system resource services. A domain may include fault handling mechanisms operating independently of and cooperatively with fault handling mechanisms of other domains, and domain may be comprised of domains.

Abstract: A fault handling monitor transparently using multiple technologies for fault handling in a shared system resource, such as a network file server, providing services to clients communicating with the system resource through a network. The system resource is organized as a cluster of multiple hierarchical and peer domains wherein each domain includes domain centered fault handling mechanisms operating cooperatively across domains. The system resource includes a network domain including a plurality of client/resource communications paths and supporting client/resource communications between the system resource and clients of the system resource, a resource service domain performing low level resource services operations, and a control/processing domain supporting the client/resource communications of the network domain, performing high level resource service operations and providing communications for resource service operations between the network domain and the resource service domain.