Patent ID: 7548973
Filing Date: 2009-06-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a service, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a composite resource for providing said service; wherein said composite resource includes a plurality of members; wherein said composite resource maintains data indicating, for each member of the plurality of members, whether the member is enabled or disabled; wherein enabled members of the composite resource are concurrently executing on one or more nodes; wherein each enabled member of the composite resource is configured to automatically restart when the node upon which the enabled member is executing is restarted; wherein each enabled member of the plurality of members is considered to be a candidate, by the composite resource, for providing said service to a component that requests the service from the composite resource; in response to a particular event, disabling a first member in the plurality of members; wherein disabling a first member in the plurality of members reconfigures the first member to not automatically restart when the node upon which the member is executing is restarted; and while the first member is disabled, ceasing to consider the first member as a candidate for providing the service to the component that requests the service from the composite resource.