Patent ID: 8271834

Claim:
An automated method for providing immunization to a computer system, the automated method comprising: automatically generating packages by an immunity module, wherein the packages are based on simulated errors created by an error creation component; automatically storing said generated packages in an alternate recovery module; automatically monitoring the system for errors by a maintenance module; upon discovering an error by the maintenance module during its monitoring, automatically sending an error alert message from the maintenance module to an assessment module; automatically determining the severity of the error by the assessment module; automatically determining the type of package required to fix the error by the assessment module; automatically sending a request regarding the type of required package from the assessment module to a recovery module, wherein the recovery module is the alternate recovery module if no other recovery module has the required package; automatically sending the package required to fix the error from the recovery module to the maintenance module; automatically fixing the error in the system: categorizing the error as either severe or non-severe; and sending the request regarding the package required to fix the error to an emergency recovery component of the recovery module if the error is severe, or sending the request regarding the package required to fix the error to a local recovery component of the recovery module if the error is not severe.