CRO-GRID grid monitoring architecture

Abstract

Grid is distributed, heterogeneous environment comprised of various resources. Monitoring of grid resources is essential for realizing functionalities such as failure detection, application performance analysis, debugging, execution management, etc. Today many mature monitoring systems exist, but there are no complete solutions and functionalities of existing systems often overlap. In this article, we propose methodology of integration of various existing systems in order to provide rich information base for applications, users and administrators. Furthermore, we extend this system with following functionalities: additional sensors, data archiving, integrated web interface and tools for installation, configuration and maintenance of monitoring components.