CSMonitor: a visual client/server monitor for CORBA-based distributed applications

Abstract

This paper presents a visual client/server monitoring and management tool, CSMonitor, that provides realtime message monitoring of distributed CORBA objects, network traffic monitoring, statistic information for load balancing, and various management information for client and server nodes. The key component of CSMonitor is a CORBA interceptor module, which we developed in Visibroker for Java. CSMonitor provides various client/server and distributed computing information graphically. Hence, this tool can be effectively used in developing CORBA-based applications in order to verify the object clustering and design model and in monitoring the network overload of running CORBA applications. By having CSMonitor running, note it becomes possible to visualize the hidden inside of Object Request Broker (ORB), and to use the information provided by CSMonitor for performance optimization.