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Self-healing, a prominent property of self-adaptiveness provides reliability, availability, maintainability, and survivability to a software system. These qualitative factors are very salient to modern distributed systems in which components and their collaboration often vary. Survivability of such systems can be best addressed from an architectural viewpoint. When it comes to maintainability and reliability, architectural level adaptation is not often supported during the design phase. Adaptation to fault tolerance into the design phase of the system development process can increase the scope of software availability and thereby attaining self-healing. In distributed systems, most of the existing architectures are often associated with communication and correspondence as primary criteria. On the other hand, a multi-agent mechanism helps in schematic control of functionality, communication by emphasizing scalability …