Methods, systems and computer program products for disseminating status information to users of computer resources

A system for disseminating resource status information to users of non-responding computer resources, comprising:

• a message store having one or more associated network addresses that stores status information regarding a plurality of computer resources that have network addresses that are different than the one or more network addresses associated with the message store;
• a monitoring system that includes a processor that is configured to identify when respective ones of the plurality of computer resources stop responding;
• a router responsive to the monitoring system that routes messages from users to the plurality of computer resources, wherein the router is configured to route a message from a user that is addressed to a non-responding computer resource to the message store using a network address translation operation;
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• a network address translator coupled to the router that translates the network addresses of respective ones of the plurality of computer resources that stop responding, wherein the message store is configured to send, responsive to receiving the message at the message store, at least some status information regarding the non-responding computer resource to the user.

A computer program product for disseminating resource status information to computer resource users, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to store status information regarding a plurality of computer resources in a message store;
• computer readable program code configured to determine that one of the plurality of computer resources has stopped responding;
• computer readable program code configured to route an inbound message from a user that is addressed to the non-responding computer resource to the message store using a network address translation operation;
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• computer readable program code configured to send, responsive to receiving the message at the message store, at least some of the status information regarding the non-responding computer resource from the message store to the user.