Monitoring overhead in distributed systems: visualization and estimation techniques

Monitoring distributed systems involves the collection, analysis, and display of interactions among managed objects. These functions are carried out by the components of a monitoring system, such as management agents. During monitoring, resources in the system are shared between the monitoring system components and the monitored distributed system. Thus, the monitored system has to maintain its functionality with fewer resources. This eventually aects the performance of the monitored system, by causing unwanted eects such as slow response time from processes and delayed access time to devices. Furthermore, inecient conguration of the monitoring system components will have additional negative eects on the monitored system components. The combination of all eects of monitoring on the monitored distributed system is referred to as monitoring overhead. To use the resources in the system eciently, one has to select a conguration with minimal monitoring overhead. However, due to the natur...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: Hasina Abdu, Hanan Lutfi Lutfiyya, Michael A. Bauer
• Keywords: CASCON 1996, CASCON 2007, Distributed Systems, Monitored Distributed System, Monitoring Overhead