Patent ID: 8548956

Claim:
A method for automatically repairing a node of a multi-node computing appliance, the method comprising: determining that a first node of a cluster comprising multiple nodes is not fully functional or completely non-functional; identifying a second node within the cluster that is fully functional; creating a configuration bundle using the second node to enable automatic recovery of an operational state of the first node of the multi-node computing appliance, wherein the configuration bundle includes: a system database, meta-data associated with the second node of the computing appliance, and one or more configuration files comprising a set of configuration data for the second node; saving the configuration bundle to a storage device, the storage device accessible to the first node and the second node; running an installation program on the first node to enable a base operation of the first node; and restoring the first node of the computing appliance to an operational state, wherein restoring includes: accessing the configuration bundle stored on the storage device to restore the set of configuration data for the first node of the computing appliance.