Research Article
A decentralized mechanism for application level monitoring of distributed systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8336 , author={Constantin Serban and Wenxuan Zhang and Naftaly Minsky}, title={A decentralized mechanism for application level monitoring of distributed systems}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing}, proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM}, year={2009}, month={12}, keywords={collaborative monitoring self management LGI}, doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8336 } }- Constantin Serban
Wenxuan Zhang
Naftaly Minsky
Year: 2009
A decentralized mechanism for application level monitoring of distributed systems
COLLABORATECOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8336
Abstract
For a complex distributed system to be dependable, it must be continuously monitored, so that its failures and imperfections can be discovered and corrected in a timely manner. This work is concerned with the monitoring of large, open and heterogeneous systems, at their application level. Our objective is a monitoring technique that satisfies the following properties: scalability with respect to the size of the system and with the complexity of the monitoring task; the ability to deal reliably with heterogeneous components; and the ease and flexibility of deployment. Our approach to monitoring is based on a middleware called law-governed interaction (LGI), which is a decentralized coordination and control mechanism.
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