Computing platforms inevitably suffer from corruptions that creep into the operating system, or elsewhere into the software platform. It is possible to reinstall individual applications or the operating system, but such remedies are slow and expensive both in terms of money and downtime. For this reason, system administrators typically rely upon system recovery applications, several of which are currently available on the market.
Unfortunately, most of these system recovery solutions are inadequate in one or more ways. For automated industrial systems the most clear point of failure would be their lack of automation: currently, none of the most widely known software recovery systems offer any means of configuring automated, smart reactions to system events. However, to achieve a reliably automated system recovery solution requires BIOS level engineering, and careful planning for the customer’s end needs.
In the white paper that follows, we describe for you what key scenarios a suitably smart, automated software platform recovery tool must rectify, and describe the technology needed to produce it.
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