Patent ID: 7975038
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an application management program for managing a system where a plurality of applications that provide services in cooperation with each other are installed on individual server computers, the application management program causing a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving a request for starting provision of a service; sequentially selecting start-target server computers from among the server computers that should start applications thereon to provide the requested service, in reverse order to that in which the server computers are logically connected to propagate processing requests of the applications, by consulting server definition information describing installation states of the applications providing the service on the server computers; confirming whether an associated application that should be started before the application installed on the selected start-target server computer has been started correctly, by consulting status information containing results of a starting process to be performed by the server computers on the applications; and instructing the selected start-target server computer to start the application thereon, upon confirmation that the associated application has been started correctly, and registering success or failure of the start in the status information.