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US 2014/0237090 A1Published application
Server maintenance system
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsSoren Lassen, Guanghao Shen, Iain Becker
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Abstract
A method includes: determining a maintenance update for a data service tier based on a service condition of a data service of a target host server; selecting a spare host server to perform the maintenance update; performing the maintenance update of the data service tier to the spare host server; activating the data service on the spare host server; and redirecting client request traffic to the spare host server.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining a maintenance update for a data service tier based on a service condition of a data service of a target host server;
- selecting a spare host server to perform the maintenance update;
- performing the maintenance update of the data service tier to the spare host server;
- activating the data service on the spare host server;
- and
- redirecting client request traffic to the spare host server.
3 more elements
A method comprising:
- determining a maintenance update to a data service provided by a target host server in a service tier based on a service condition of the target host server;
- determining a priority of the maintenance update based on an operating state of the target host server;
- determining a spare host server for replacing the data service of the target host server in response to approval of the priority of the maintenance update;
- and
- replacing the data service of target host server with the spare host server.
2 more elements
A maintenance system comprising:
- a host server including a processor and a non-transitory storage medium having an updater module executable by the processor;
- wherein the updater module is configured to:
- determine a maintenance update for a data service tier based on a service condition of a data service of a target host server;
- select a spare host server to perform the maintenance update of the data service tier;
- activate the data service on the spare host server;
- and
- deactivate the data service on the target host server;
- and
- an aggregator server is configured to direct client request traffic to the spare host server when the data service is deactivated on the target host server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.