Patent ID: 9319282
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a first physical node in a server cluster comprising: monitoring, via a first monitoring agent at the first physical node, a node status of a second physical node, the second physical node including a second monitoring agent to monitor one or more virtual servers hosted by the second physical node; performing a failover of the one or more virtual servers from the second physical node to the first physical node in response to the node status identifying a failure of the second physical node; hosting the one or more virtual servers by the first physical node after performing the failover; activating, at the first physical node, a cache of rules provided and updated by a management server; and monitoring, via the first monitoring agent, the one or more virtual servers hosted by the first physical node, the monitoring performed based on the cache of rules.