Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring

Ehab S. Al-Shaer

doi:10.1007/3-540-48100-1_2

Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring

Ehab S. Al-Shaer^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The successful deployment of next-generation distributed systems is significantly dependent on the efficient management support that improves the performance and reliability of these applications at runtime. This paper motivates and describes a programmable agents approach for active monitoring as an important attribute for supporting scalable, highly-responsive and non-intrusive management architecture. Active monitoring enables defining re-configurable and self-directed management tasks that can be modified automatically at run-time in order to track the system behavior. Based on observed events and users’ monitoring demands, monitoring agents can dynamically customize their assigned tasks and initiate the appropriate monitoring actions. This avoids activating unnecessary monitoring tasks and provides a dynamic monitoring operations. The presented system, which is referred to as HiFi, supports a comprehensive environment including code instrumentation, user subscription, event filtering and action service. The paper also shows monitoring examples that illustrates the application and the effectiveness of active monitoring in managing large-scale distributed systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Active Technologies for Network and Service Management - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Proceedings
Editors	Burkhard Stiller, Rolf Stadler
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	19-32
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	3540665986, 9783540665984
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48100-1_2
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 11 Oct 1999 → 13 Oct 1999

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	1700
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	11/10/99 → 13/10/99

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999.

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Al-Shaer, E. S. (1999). Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring. In B. Stiller, & R. Stadler (Eds.), Active Technologies for Network and Service Management - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Proceedings (pp. 19-32). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1700). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48100-1_2

Al-Shaer, Ehab S. / Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring. Active Technologies for Network and Service Management - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Proceedings. editor / Burkhard Stiller ; Rolf Stadler. Springer Verlag, 1999. pp. 19-32 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Al-Shaer, ES 1999, Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring. in B Stiller & R Stadler (eds), Active Technologies for Network and Service Management - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 1700, Springer Verlag, pp. 19-32, 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Zurich, Switzerland, 11/10/99. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48100-1_2

Programmable agents for active distributed monitoring. / Al-Shaer, Ehab S.
Active Technologies for Network and Service Management - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 1999, Proceedings. ed. / Burkhard Stiller; Rolf Stadler. Springer Verlag, 1999. p. 19-32 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1700).

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