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United States Patent6279001   
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Inventor(s)DeBettencourt; Jason (Framingham, MA); Lara; Marco (Topsfield, MA); Yamane; Stanley (Framingham, MA); Abbott; Freeland (Arlington, MA)
AbstractA system for serving web pages manages a plurality of web servers. The system provides an operator with features and tools to coordinate the operation of the multiple web servers. The system can manage traffic by directing web page requests to available web servers and balancing the web page request service load among the multiple servers. The system can collect data on web page requests and web server responses to those web page requests, and provide reporting of the data as well as automatic and manual analysis tools. The system can monitor for specific events, and can act automatically upon the occurrence of such events. The events can include predictions or thresholds that indicate impending system crises. The system can include crisis management capability to provide automatic error recovery, and to guide a system operator through the possible actions that can be taken to recover from events such as component failure or network environment problems. The system can present current information about the system operation to a system operator. The system can manage content replication.



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Inventor     DeBettencourt; Jason (Framingham, MA); Lara; Marco (Topsfield, MA); Yamane; Stanley (Framingham, MA); Abbott; Freeland (Arlington, MA)
Owner/Assignee     Webspective Software, Inc. (Needham, MA)
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Publication Date     August 21, 2001
Application Number     09/086,874
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Filing Date     May 29, 1998
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Examiner     Black; Thomas
Assistant Examiner     Coby; Frantz
Attorney/Law Firm     Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP
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What is claimed is:

1. A system for managing one or more web servers, comprising:

a traffic management subsystem for referring a browser's web page request received by a first one of the web servers to a second one of the web servers, the referring comprising transmitting a redirect instruction and a network identifier of the second one of the web servers from the first one of the web servers to the browser thereby causing the browser to send the web page request directly to the second one of the web servers;

a monitor for collecting and storing information related to the web page request, the information comprising performance and network information associated with the web page request; and

an identifier for identifying problems with the web servers and providing automatic notification to a system operator of events indicating problems with one or more of the web servers.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the traffic management subsystem comprises an interceptor receiving web page requests and distributing the web page requests to the web servers based on the load on the web servers.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the web servers are capable of referring web page requests based on the load on the web servers.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the traffic management subsystem further comprises a manager for receiving web server load information and communicating the web server load information to an interceptor.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the traffic management subsystem further comprises an agent for directing the web servers.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the manager directs the agent to direct one of the web servers to refer web page requests.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the web servers run on hosts; and wherein each host comprises an agent in communication with at least one of the web servers on the host and wherein each agent is also in communication with the manager.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the monitor comprises a manager receiving web page request information and storing the web page request information in a database.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the manager receives web page request information from the one or more of the web servers.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the manager receives web page request information from one or more agents each in communication with at least one of the web servers.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the web page request information is stored in a relational database.

12. The system of claim 8 further comprising a console for displaying information to a system operator.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the console is capable of alerting the system operator to events.

14. The system of claim 12 wherein the console is capable of retrieving the web page request information from the database and displaying the web page request information to the system operator.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein the identifier comprises a manager receiving web page request information and storing the request information in a database.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the events received by the manager are sent by an agent.

17. A system for managing one or more web servers, comprising

a traffic management subsystem for referring a browser web page request received by a first one of the web servers to a second one of the web servers such that the web page request is made by the browser directly to the second one of the web servers;

a monitor for collecting and storing information related to the web page request; and

an identifier for identifying problems with the web servers and providing notification of events indicating problems with one or more of the web servers, said identifier comprising a manager capable of taking corrective action in response to notification of events indicating problems with one of the web servers.

18. The system of claim 16 where the manager notifies a system operator upon the occurrence of an event.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the manager notifies a system operator when automatic corrective action taken in response to an event caused by a problem does not resolve the problem.

20. A system for managing one or more web servers, comprising:

a traffic management subsystem for referring a browser web page request received by a first one of the web servers to a second one of the web servers such that the web page request is made by the browser directly to the second one of the web servers;

a monitor for collecting and storing information related to the web page request;

an identifier for identifying problems with the web servers and providing notification of events indicating problems with one or more of the web servers; and

a version controller for updating web pages on