The availability service consists of platform availability and application availability services.
The platform availability service enables availability of the Sun OTP compute elements.
The application availability service enables basic lifecycle and availability management of NEP applications. Supported lifecycle operations include registration, activation, and deactivation of applications.
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
Failing over applications from host A to host B
Restarting applications on host X