Patent ID: 8510755
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system also including a container manager that is configured to listen for and store health events for message activated services, a method for re-starting a service contained in a message activated container, the method comprising: an act of the container manager receiving a registration request from a health reporting agent that reports health events for the service, the registration request requesting to register the service for re-starts; an act of the container manager indicating in durable storage that the service is registered for re-starts in response to receiving the registration request; an act of the container manager acknowledging to the health reporting agent that the container manager has registered the service for re-starts subsequent to indicating in durable storage that the service is registered for re-starts; an act of the container manager receiving a first heartbeat message from the health reporting agent, the first heartbeat message including an indication of a status of the service, the status selected from among idle or busy; an act of the processor detecting that the container manager has missed a pre-configured number of heartbeat messages from the health reporting agent subsequent to receiving the first heartbeat message, and: