Patent ID: 7020677
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An automated process for assisting in the administration of a distributed application of a transaction processing manager, based on a binary configuration file said process comprising: decompiling the active configuration file of the master machine, retrieving information related to said distributed application from the decompiled configuration file of the master machine, checking the consistency of said application running on at least one of several machines, wherein said process is performed by a computer program, and wherein the step for checking the consistency of said application comprises comparing the information obtained from the binary configuration file of the master machine and the information obtained from said current application running on a given machine; managing at least one listener module of any machine from another machine, wherein the managing is capable of starting or stopping one or more of the listener modules based on the binary configuration file and activating the one or more listener modules, wherein the distributed application is started after the starting of the one or more listener modules and the at least one listener module receives information from another machine; and automatically generating a file containing information on said application running on a given machine when the file does not exist in the given machine in order to be able use it during a next startup of the listener modules.