Patent ID: 8386855
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: assigning, by a distributed healthchecking manager executable on a centralized server, nodes of a cluster system to a subset of the nodes of the cluster system for healthchecking; causing, by the distributed healthchecking manager, the subset of the nodes to perform healthchecking on the nodes assigned; monitoring, by the distributed healthchecking manager, the subset of the nodes for reports of one or more failed nodes; receiving, by the distributed healthchecking manager, a report of a failed node from a node in the subset of the nodes in the cluster system; and in response to the report, the distributed healthchecking manager removing the failed node and reassigning one or more remaining ones of the nodes to the subset of the nodes for healthchecking.