Method for event triggered monitoring of managed server health

A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for implementing interoperable management of application servers, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

• determining, at the occurrence of a triggering event, a health status of the at least one server, the server configured to return the health status of the server in response to a query of the health status;
• detecting at least one of a degenerate health status of the at least one server and a failure to respond to the query of the health status;
• and
• performing treatment on the at least one server when at least one of a degenerate health status of the at least one server and a failure to respond to the query of the health status is detected, by:
• determining a value of an auto-terminate parameter, the value specified in the auto-terminate parameter indicating whether the server can be automatically killed;
• and
• determining whether to kill the at least one server based at least in part upon whether the auto-terminate parameter indicates that the server may be killed when degenerate health or a failure to respond has been detected.

A monitoring apparatus for remotable monitoring of an application server, the apparatus comprising:

• a monitoring instance, triggered at the occurrence of a triggering event to query health status of the application server,
• a monitoring servlet to return the health status of the application server in response to a query of the health status;
• wherein
• when the monitoring instance detects at least one of a degenerate health status of the application server and a failure to respond to the query of the health status, the monitoring instance performs treatment on the application server when at least one of a degenerate health status of the application server and a failure to respond to the query of the health status is detected;
• and wherein performing treatment includes:
• determining a value of an auto-terminate parameter, the value specified in the auto-terminate parameter indicating whether the application server can be automatically killed;
• and
• determining whether to kill the application server based at least in part upon whether the auto-terminate parameter indicates that the application server may be killed when degenerate health or a failure to respond has been detected.