HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management

With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliability of such complex applications. This paper presents a scalable, dynamic, flexible and non-intrusive monitoring architecture for managing large-scale distributed (LSD) systems. This architecture, which is is referred to as the HiFi monitoring system, detects and classifies interesting primitive and composite events and performs either a corrective or steering action. When appropriate, information is also disseminated to management applications, such reactive control tools. The monitoring architecture employs a hierarchical event filtering approach that distributes the monitoring load and limits event propagation. This significantly improves scalability and performance while minimizing the monitoring intrusiveness. The architecture provides dynamic monitoring capabilities through subscription policies that ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Maly
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, HiFi Monitoring, ICDCS 1999, Monitoring Architecture, Non-intrusive Monitoring Architecture