Patent ID: 11881985
Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computing device within a data center of an enterprise network, the computing device comprising:
a storage device;
one or more interfaces that are locally connected to each server of a plurality of servers within the data center; and
processing circuitry having access to the storage device and configured to:
in response to a failure within the enterprise network, access, over one of the interfaces, a server of the plurality of servers that includes a digital dog tag file stored at a predefined location on the server, wherein the digital dog tag file for the server includes recovery information for one or more applications hosted on the server, and wherein the recovery information for an application of the one or more applications indicates one or more application dependencies comprising resources enabling the application to operate;
read the digital dog tag file from the predefined location on the server; and
instruct recovery of at least one application of the one or more applications hosted on the server based on the recovery information included in the digital dog tag file for the server, wherein to instruct recovery of the at least one application, the processing circuitry is configured to:
instruct recovery of the one or more application dependencies of the application indicated in the recovery information, and
after recovery of the one or more application dependencies, instruct recovery of the application.