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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGerald Francis McBrearty, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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An apparatus and method for building metadata using a heartbeat of a clustered system are provided. The apparatus and method send portions of metadata for a computer system resource, to each of the other computer systems in the clustered system as a heartbeat data message. Upon receiving the heartbeat data message having the portion of metadata, the receiving computer systems store the portion of metadata in a temporary storage until all of the metadata is received. In subsequent heartbeat data messages, the remaining portions of the metadata are transmitted to the computer systems which, upon receiving all portions of the metadata, store the metadata in a secure location. If the sending computer system were to fail, the metadata stored in the secure location is read and used to takeover the resources of the failed computer system. In this way, the processing cycles used to read in the metadata from the resources of the failed computer system in the prior art are eliminated.
A method of building metadata of a resource for use in determining state of the resource, comprising:
An apparatus for building metadata of a resource for use in determining state of the resource, comprising:
A computer program product in a computer readable medium for building metadata of a resource for use in determining state of the resource, comprising:
A method, in a computing system, of sending metadata to a plurality of other computing systems, the metadata identifying a state of a resource, comprising:
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