Availability Service

The availability service consists of platform availability and application availability services.

Platform Availability

The platform availability service enables availability of the Sun OTP compute elements.

Application Availability

The application availability service enables basic lifecycle and availability management of NEP applications. Supported lifecycle operations include application registration, activation, quiescence, and deactivation.

The following operations are supported by the application lifecycle and availability management services:

• Creating application manifests

• Modifying application manifests

• Deleting application manifests

• Creating application dependencies

• Modifying application dependencies

• Deleting application dependencies

• Registering applications

• Starting applications

• Stopping applications

• Querying application state

• Migrating applications from host A to host B

• Restarting applications on host X

• Fail over applications from host A to host B