Patent ID: 7035943

Claim:
A method for notifying a computer of changes to a master source file set, comprising the steps of: (a) identifying changes to files in the master source file set on a master computer; (b) converting local host addresses of the files to uniform resource locators; (c) storing the identified changes in a modification list comprising the uniform resource locators specifying changed files of the master source file set; (d) transmitting the modification list to one or more computers, thereby notifying the one or more computers that the master source file set has changed; (e) receiving a response from at least one of the one or more computers indicating that the identified changes are installed; and (f) issuing an alert that an installing of the changes by an agent in at least one of the one or more computers has failed, to cause a traffic manager that redirects traffic to decrease requests made to a web server on the computer having the agent.