Toward Broad-Spectrum Autonomic Management

— The fields of autonomics and system configuration share a common goal in decreasing the cost of ownership of large fabrics. In this paper we present a combined vision in which the technical advances of autonomics and the usability advances of system configuration are merged. We present some early system configuration research that forms the first steps toward this vision. Computer fabrics1 are becoming ever more complex and ever more central to the operation of organisations. The cost of a single fabric failure can easily dwarf the cost of employing its administrators [1] but, as for software developers before them [2], IT managers are discovering that simply adding more people to a complex problem does not necessarily provide better results. Autonomics has as its origin the attempt to improve the robustness of an infrastructure by enabling the fabric itself to respond to changes in its environment [3]. But how can we be sure that the the large-scale properties of the fabric w...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICN
• Authors: Edmund Smith, Paul Anderson
• Keywords: Fabric, ICN 2007, Single Fabric Failure, Technical Advances