Automated management of applications for network failures

A method comprising:

• periodically retrieving, by a computing system within an enterprise network and from one or more sources within the enterprise network, application information for one or more applications hosted on a given server of a plurality of servers within at least one data center of the enterprise network, wherein the computing system has remote access to the at least one data center of the enterprise network;
• periodically generating, by the computing system and based on the application information, a digital dog tag file for the given server that includes recovery information for the one or more applications hosted on the given server, wherein the recovery information for a respective application of the one or more applications indicates one or more application dependencies comprising resources enabling the respective application to operate;
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• sending, by the computing system and to the given server using the remote access of the computing system to the at least one data center, the digital dog tag file for local storage at a predefined location on the given server, wherein the digital dog tag file stored at the predefined location on the given server is accessible by a computing device within the at least one data center to instruct recovery of the respective application of the one or more applications hosted on the given server in case of a loss of the remote access between the computing system and the at least one data center, wherein to instruct recovery of the respective application, the computing device instructs recovery of the one or more application dependencies of the respective application indicated in the recovery information, and after recovery of the one or more application dependencies, instructs recovery of the respective application.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a computing system within an enterprise network to:

• periodically retrieve, from one or more sources within the enterprise network, application information for one or more applications hosted on a given server of a plurality of servers within at least one data center of the enterprise network, wherein the computing system has remote access to the at least one data center of the enterprise network;
• periodically generate, based on the application information, a digital dog tag file for the given server that includes recovery information for the one or more applications hosted on the given server, wherein the recovery information for a respective application of the one or more applications indicates one or more application dependencies comprising resources enabling the respective application to operate;
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• send, to the given server using the remote access of the computing system to the at least one data center, the digital dog tag file for local storage at a predefined location on the given server, wherein the digital dog tag file stored at the predefined location on the given server is accessible by a computing device within the at least one data center to instruct recovery of the respective application of the one or more applications hosted on the given server in case of a loss of the remote access between the computing system and the at least one data center, wherein to instruct recovery of the respective application, the computing device instructs recovery of the one or more application dependencies of the respective application indicated in the recovery information, and after recovery of the one or more application dependencies, instructs recovery of the respective application.