Patent ID: 6807580
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a computer network including a plurality of servers in a server farm, said server farm comprising a logical group of servers administered as a single entity, a method for managing running data generated by the servers, the method comprising the steps of:designating at least two servers in the server farm as collector points for collecting said runtime data of a first type, said runtime data of a first type including at least one of server status information, client session data, licensing information, loading information, and a current workload of each server in the plurality of servers in the server farm; and assigning a first subset of the plurality of the servers in the server farm to transmit said runtime data of the first type to at least one of the collector points and a second subset of the plurality of servers in the server farm to transmit said runtime data of the first type to another of the collector points.