A unified API gateway for high availability clusters

Author

Qian Zhang ; Hanyue Chu ; Mingyu Li ; Xiaohui Hu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Software, Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

2321

Lastpage

2325

Abstract

High-availability (HA) clusters are widely used to provide high availability services. Recently, many HA cluster solutions and products have been proposed or developed by different organizations. However, each HA cluster system has its own administrative tool and application programming interface (API). Besides, vendor lock-in makes customers dependent on the specific vendors´ own high availability clusters. Therefore, it is very complicated to simultaneously manage various HA clusters. To solve this problem, a novel SOA-based Unified API Gateway for high-availability Clusters (UAGC) is proposed in this paper. Under UAGC, cluster services are conveniently managed in a unified way, which is independent of platforms or programming languages. Six web service interfaces are implemented in UAGC to cover most cluster functions. A UAGC-based web service (UAGCService) is implemented with WCF. The experimental results show that UAGCService has good performances.

Keywords

Web services; application program interfaces; service-oriented architecture; HA cluster system; SOA-based unified API gateway; UAGC-based Web service; UAGCService; WCF; Web service interface; application programming interface; high availability cluster; Availability; Contracts; Linux; Logic gates; Network interfaces; Servers; Web services; API gateway; Cluster Consolidation; SOA-based; administrative tool;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronic Sciences, Electric Engineering and Computer (MEC), Proceedings 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shengyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2564-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEC.2013.6885428

Filename

6885428