System and method for enhancing efficiency and/or efficacy of switchover and/or failover in providing network based services with high availability

A system configured to provide server application services of a server application with high availability, the system comprising:

• a production server configured to execute an instance of the server application, and to provide a set of server application services associated with the server application;
• a standby server configured to provide backup for the production server, the standby server being further configured to execute an instance of the server application, the standby server further being configured to execute computer program modules comprising:
• a monitoring module configured to obtain the set of server application services being executed by the production server, the set of server application services comprising a first service,
• a classification module configured to determine whether individual ones of the server application services being provided by the production server are a primary service or a secondary service, and
• a service configuration module configured to configure the server application services being provided by the production server on the standby server for changeover, the service configuration module being further configured (i) such that, responsive to the determination that the first service is a secondary service, the first service is configured on the standby server without waiting for receipt of a command to change the set of server application services over to the standby server, and (ii) such that responsive to the determination that the first service is a primary service, configuration of the first service on the standby server is delayed until receipt of a command to change the set of server application services over to the standby server.

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to obtain a set of server application services associated with a server application that are to be backed up by a standby server, the set of server application services comprising a first service;
• computer readable program code configured to determine whether the first service is a primary service or a secondary service;
• computer readable program code configured to, responsive to the determination that the first service is a secondary service, configure the first service on the standby server without waiting for receipt of a command to change the set of server application services over to the standby server;
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• computer readable program code configured to, responsive to the determination that the first service is a primary service, delay configuration of the first service on the standby server until receipt of a command to change the set of server application services over to the standby server.