Availability Guide for Application Design

About This Guide
Availability Guide for Application Design—52563-004
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How Is This Guide Organized?
How Is This Guide Organized?
This guide progresses logically through the products and concepts involved in
application availability. Readers who read it from cover to cover will gain the most
benefit.
Table i shows the organization of the guide.
Table i. Organization and Contents of the Manual
Section or Appendix... Describes...
1
What Is Application
Availability?
Why it is necessary to design for availability and the
application environment in which a continuous
application runs.
2
Overview of Server and
Network Fault Tolerance
The availability features and options provided for you
in the hardware and system software of the server
system and network that provide a fault tolerant base
upon which to build your continuous application.
3
Improving Availability on the
Internet
An overview of open standards that may be used in
conjunction with existing HP application software
services to provide Internet applications with all of the
unique HP NonStop server attributes such as
availability, scalability and manageability.
4
Data Protection and
Recovery
HP’s product features related to data integrity,
including transaction management, database
management, and queue management.
5
Increasing the Availability of
Tuxedo Applications
How to make use of the features offered by HP for
increasing the availability of applications designed to
run in the NonStop Tuxedo open environment.
6
Availability in the Pathway
Transaction-Processing
Environment
How traditional HP applications can be designed to
run with high levels of availability using the features of
the Remote Server Call/MP (RSC/MP) products, the
Pathsend facility, or the Pathway/iTS product.
8
Availability Through Process-
Pairs and Monitors
The system interfaces that enable you to design
processes to run with a backup or to design
applications that reliably restart processes.
7
Instrumenting an Application
for Availability
A set of products and interfaces that enable
programmatic notification of problems or potential
problems through event generation and automatic
control of the application through a command and
response interface.