Combining disparate applications into a single workload group

摘要

Different protocol applications (e.g., TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications) are monitored and combined into a same workload, and load balancing decisions are made that affect both types of applications. In the approach, monitoring agents verify the health and availability of both the TCP/IP server applications and SNA applications, and such information is then used by a workload manager to create a distribution policy for the workload. The workload manager provides the distribution policy to a load balancing mechanism, which is operable to distribute workload connections to any of these applications. The TCP/IP connections and SNA sessions for a workload group are then routed to one site, or to an alternate site.

主权项

1. Apparatus for managing requests to access a data source, wherein the requests are directed to instances of first or second applications that are each supported in first and second sites, and wherein each of the first and second sites has its own copy of the data source, comprising:
one or more hardware processors; computer memory holding computer program instructions executed by the hardware processors and operative to:
associate into a workload group instances of the first and second applications;receive status information associated with a status of each of the first and second applications that comprise the workload group;use the received status information to generate a distribution policy for workload connection requests to access the data source, the distribution policy derived from the received status information about both the first and second applications; andprovide the distribution policy to a load balancer that has responsibility to select which of the first and second sites receives a particular workload connection request.