Patent ID: 8676958

Claim:
A method for monitoring a plurality of servers by a monitoring server in a computer network, comprising the steps of: generating a list of servers and a plurality of services to monitor, at a session layer of an Open Systems Interconnection Model, in the computer network through a monitoring server having at least one input wherein at least one text file is input containing the lists the list of servers and determines a plurality of services to monitor; transmitting a status query, by the monitoring server at a specified service time interval and at a reconfigured service time interval, including the plurality of services to monitor each of the plurality of servers sequentially, wherein a heartbeat monitor service sequentially determines the services to monitor in each of the plurality of servers based wholly on registry settings by monitoring the functionalities of the plurality of servers, wherein the heartbeat monitor service functions based wholly on the monitoring of the functionality of the plurality of servers; receiving a status message report from each of the plurality of servers via an output as determined by the at least one input; and reporting an event in an event log for each server that has an abnormal service status as determined through the output.