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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMyung Bae, Ramendra Sahoo
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The notion of controlling, using and monitoring remote resources in a distributed data processing system through the use of proxy resource managers and agents is extended to provide failover capability so that resource coverage is preserved and maintained even in the event of either temporary or longer duration node failure. Mechanisms are provided for consistent determination of resource status. Mechanisms are also provided which facilitate the joining of nodes to a group of nodes while still preserving remote resource operations. Additional mechanisms are also provided for the return of remote resource management to the control of a previously failed, but now recovered node, even if the failure had resulted in a node reset.
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A method for managing a remotely accessible resource in a multi-node, distributed processing system, said method comprising the steps of:
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A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for causing a data processor to manage a remotely accessible resource in a multi-node, distributed data processing system, by carrying out the steps of:
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A distributed data processing system having a plurality of nodes containing executable instructions, in memory locations within the nodes of said distributed data processing system, for causing nodes in said distributed data processing system to operate so as to:
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