[Aglets-users] Issues related to problems occuring when tahiti server is down..

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<DIV>Hi all,</DIV>
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<DIV>I have been working on an application of Mobile agents.. in distributed information retrieval. I have been successful in implementing it in a LAN of my own.. however i cant stop and ponder on the thought of how could i maintain the agent system when the tahiti server of the main node is down.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here's what my application does..</DIV>
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<DIV>Its a shopping mall Server ( main server ), hence all clients of the mall (Shops) register with it and thus we have a shopping mall network.. </DIV>
<DIV>now customers can query for various information about the mall or the items they wanna look for..</DIV>
<DIV>the customer sends agents to the main server, which is like a directory of the mall... and creates an appropriate itinerary for the agent to traverse and search for stuffs..</DIV>
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<DIV>As u can see the system is dependent on the central server... thus if the main node fails.. the whole process comes to a standstill..</DIV>
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<DIV>Could any1 provide suggestions on how i could, improvise on this so that the Shopping mall network is maintained..</DIV>
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<DIV>here's what i have thought of so far... i plan to make my SHop agents .. keep checking for the availability of the main server... and if not available it would register with a backup Server... </DIV>
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<DIV>But how do u i make it check availability ... at intervals..using aglets ofcourse..?</DIV>
<DIV>Also, how would it know what the other server is to which it has to register with..</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks a lot guys... </DIV>
<DIV>Sukal</DIV>
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