Patent ID: 8661287
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: designating a first port on a first server as a master port, and designating a second port on the first server as a slave port; designating a first port on a second server as a first replication port, and designating a second port on the second server as a second replication port; receiving, in a load balancer, a status message from each of a plurality of services operating on a plurality of servers coupled behind the load balancer; detecting, in the load balancer, a failure of a first service executing on the first server of the plurality of servers based on a status message; and responsive to the failure detection, automatically enabling the second server corresponding to a failover server to the first server to enable a failover service to be activated to execute the first service, via the load balancer.