Console software for facilitating the administration of failures in agent services

摘要

A Java-enabled computer system (AP 1 ) hosts an application server (11) and a database (13). The application server hosts an agent server (15), a database access layer (17), and a servlet container (19). The agent server hosts a set of software agents (AGI, AGR, AGi, AG 2 ...AGN) for responding to customer requests. The agents can be invoked in series to meet a customer request. When one of the agents fails, an administrator is notified. The administrator can access an administration console (30) using a browser (43). From the administration console, the administrator can edit the request and resubmit it directly to the agent suffering the failure without re-invoking preceding agents that completed their services successfully.