METHOD FOR ENABLING FASTER RECOVERY OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS IN THE EVENT OF SERVER FAILURE

摘要

A system and method are provided for improving recovery timesin fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sendingnotificationof the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a clientapplicationrunning on a client node, to the client application. In the present invention,this notification is provided by the fallover node acting as backup for theservernode. When a client application receives no response from a server for a longtime, it assumes that the server has failed and initiates reconnection. Thepresentinvention speeds-up the reconnect initiated by the client application byhavingsystem level software proactively notify the client application about theserverfailure. This results in faster recovery for client applications.