Patent ID: 8180865

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a network communication component; and an administrative proxy server device configured to: distribute, via the network communication component, at least one of a plurality of independent partitioned application server program configuration profiles to each of a plurality of application servers; independently start each of the independent partitioned application server program configuration profiles distributed to each of the plurality of application servers; detect a failure associated with one of the plurality of application servers; automatically re-distribute the at least one of the plurality of independent partitioned application server program configuration profiles distributed to the failed one of the plurality of application servers to at least one remaining application server of the plurality of application servers; restart the re-distributed at least one of the plurality of independent partitioned application server program configuration profiles at the at least one remaining application server of the plurality of application servers; and wherein the administrative proxy server device is further configured to redistribute management of the re-distributed at least one of the plurality of independent partitioned application server program configuration profiles to at least one remaining administrative server upon a failure of an assigned administrative server.