Patent ID: 7886050

Claim:
A method to monitor a state of one or more components of a remote access server farm by an intermediary to distinguish between operating and functional components and improve farm availability for user application requests, the intermediary deployed between a client and the remote access server farm and forwarding client requests to functional components of the remote access server farm, the method comprising: (a) transmitting, by one or more monitoring agents of an intermediary device deployed between a client and a remote access server farm, a request for a predetermined default web interface page to each of a plurality of web interfaces providing a browser based depiction of the remote access server farm; (b) receiving, by one monitoring agent of the one or more monitoring agents, a first response to the request from a first web interface, the first response comprising a header identifying a setting of a cookie; (c) identifying, by the intermediary device from the first response, the first web interface as operational and functional; (d) receiving, by the intermediary device, a second response to the request from a second web interface, the second response not having the header identifying the setting of the cookie; (e) determining, by the intermediary device from the second response, the second web interface is operational and not functional; and (f) transmitting, by the intermediary device, a request from the client to an operational and functional web interface of the plurality of web interfaces.