Patent ID: 7299276

Claim:
A computer program product for determining a health status of a selected server of a server farm, the computer program product comprising: a computer usable storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, the computer readable code comprising: computer code for implementing a first thread of said computer program product for determining the health status of a first server of the server farm, said first thread comprising: computer code for identifying the first server of the server farm for analysis; computer code for receiving data from the first server, said data including content information; computer code for performing format verification on a first portion of said content information by verifying correct formatting of the first portion of content information using predetermined format verification rules; computer code for identifying timestamp information in the first portion of content, wherein the timestamp information includes an hour's portion of a time value and a minute's portion of the time value; computer code for determining whether the hour's portion of the time value is an integer within a range from 1 to 12, inclusive; computer code for determining whether the minute's portion of the time value is an integer within a range from 0 to 59, inclusive; computer code for determining whether the timestamp information includes a colon character interposed between the hours portion and minutes portion of the time value; and computer code for determining the health status of the first server based upon results of said format verification.