Jungchan Na, Kyeongbeom Kim, Dukjoo Son, Myungjoon Kim
{"title":"A prototype implementation of performance management in HANURI/M","authors":"Jungchan Na, Kyeongbeom Kim, Dukjoo Son, Myungjoon Kim","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534153","url":null,"abstract":"In a distributed processing environment, good management tools make the environment very reliable. We have developed a prototype of distributed systems management software, which is called HANURI/M. HANURI/M provides configuration, fault and performance management services in a distributed environment. Performance management is one of the most important distributed management functions. HANURI/M monitors the network traffic and the utilization of system resources for performance management. It can also set factors such as the polling interval time and threshold values before carrying out the monitoring. HANURI/M analyzes the results and controls the environment. Some results presented in this paper show the values and give some hints for performance management. The performance management services of HANURI/M help us improve availability in the distributed environment.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124225974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A management policies framework","authors":"N. Guerroudji","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534145","url":null,"abstract":"Policies are one aspect of administrative information which make an important impact on management objects (physical and logical resources, users...) within the administration of a system. Indeed they determine the management task to be performed upon managed objects in order to achieve management goals. The issue of managing telecommunication and computer networks through policies has not been considered by standardisation or by most of researches on the management of networks and distributed systems. In this paper, we present a policy framework for a policy driven management architecture. It includes an object oriented informational model for the representation of management policies; a functional model for the manipulation of policies and a communication model which describes different interfaces and interactions of the policy framework with the management environment.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128956735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of distributed systems management policies: a framework for the application of intelligent agent technology","authors":"P. Steenekamp, J. Roos","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534155","url":null,"abstract":"As today's businesses become more dependent on their networks and computing infrastructure for service delivery, failures in that infrastructure translate into business losses. Mechanisms are needed to control the behaviour of the ever more complex and heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructure. Management policies, derived from business goals and objectives, give structure to the use of technology and promise to add significant value to the management of today's complex distributed computing environments. Due to the intelligent agent concept's ability to facilitate the delegation of management functionality to autonomous agents operating on behalf of a management application, this has become one of the key technologies envisaged to realise the vision of distributed systems management. A framework for applying the concept of intelligent agents, as extensively defined within the AI community, to implement systems management policies, is proposed. A number of new concepts and mechanisms to facilitate the implementation are introduced.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance evaluation for distributed system components","authors":"P. Dini, G. von Bochmann, R. Boutaba","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534143","url":null,"abstract":"The performance evaluation of hardware and software system components is based on statistics that are long views on the behavior of these components. Since system resources may have unexpected behavior, relevant current information becomes useful in the management process of these systems, especially for data gathering, reconfiguration, and fault detection activities. Actually, there are few criteria to property evaluate the current availability of component services within distributed systems. Hence, the management system can not realistically select the most suitable decision for configuration. In this paper, we present a proposal for a continuous evaluation of component behaviour related to state changes. This model is further extended by considering different categories of events concerning the degradation of the operational state or usage state. Our proposals are based on the possibility of computing at the component level, the current availability of this component by continuous evaluation. we introduce a several current availability features and propose formula to compute them. Other events concerning a managed object are classified as warning, critical or outstanding, which leads to a more accurate operational view on a component. Several counter-based events are thresholded to improve predictable reconfiguration decisions concerning the usability of a component. The main goal is to offer to the management system current relevant information which can be used within management policies the flexible polling frequency tuned with respect to the current evaluation, or particular aspects related to dynamic tests within distributed systems. Implementation issues with respect to the standard recommendations within distributed systems are presented. Finally we describe how the reconfiguration management systems can use these features in order to monitor, predict, improve the existing configuration, or accommodate the polling frequency according to several simple criteria.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132516576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying the policy concept to the management of ATM networks","authors":"R. Boutaba, A. Mehaoua","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534146","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of sophisticated processing capabilities within current networks allows to provide more advanced services to users and a high level of customization. This has led to the need of an integrated management of network, system and application resources. Furthermore, the large number and diversity of the resources to be managed in such processing and communication environments stressed the need for an automated management support to deal with the increasing complexity. This integrated and automated management is based largely upon high level architectural concepts such as management policies. This paper discusses the application of such architectural aspects for the automated management of very high speed networks. The goal is to reduce the control and management delays which are very critical in such environments. In particular a hierarchical domain structure a recursive policy-based activity are proposed for the real-time management of an ATM switch which is the basic network element of B-ISDN.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133819735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The alarm information base: a repository for enterprise management","authors":"P.H. Schow","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534157","url":null,"abstract":"In a typical enterprise operations center, the effective processing of alarms is crucial to the successful management of an information technology environment. Service-affecting alarms can originate from many sources, including customer-premise and carrier networking elements, computing systems (hardware and software) and other managed equipment. Although alarms are often viewed simply as text strings and colored icons on an operations console, the definition and maintenance of alarm-related information within an enterprise has a distinct lifecycle which needs to be managed. One way of managing this lifecycle is through a repository called an alarm information base, which centrally captures information about the alarms raised and processed in an enterprise. In this paper, the motivation for such a repository and the benefits of its use are discussed. An alarm information base can be maintained in an open and extensible format, and should be viewed as a valuable corporate asset for enterprise management.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122721849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using multicast-SNMP to coordinate distributed management agents","authors":"J. Schonwalder","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534156","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a mechanism that allows one to implement coordination primitives for cooperating management agents based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The multicast extensions presented in this paper allow one to maintain group information of cooperating SNMP agents. We also show how an election algorithm can be implemented by multicasting SNMP messages. Election algorithms can be seen as a base functionality for the implementation of fully distributed management applications.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130078169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surfin' network resources across the Web","authors":"Luca Deri","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534159","url":null,"abstract":"Network management standards provide a basis for hiding differences between resources, along with a method of managing them in a consistent way. Frequently, network management tools are based on proprietary products and are often complex both to use and to install. The increasing popularity of the World Wide Web, with its established user interface and the ability to run on almost any platform. offers a new way to provide wide access to complex software applications. This paper describes the architecture and implementation of two new network management applications that are accessible through the Web and are targeted to run on powerful hosts as well as small mobile computers. The GDMO/ASN.1 (Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects using the Abstract Syntax Notation 1) Search Engine enables users to perform complex queries and to navigate OSI management documents exploiting the Web's hypertext facilities. Liaison is a Web-based browser for CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol) and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agents that is equipped with powerful tools, such as a directory and a metadata facility.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120887304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient management data acquisition and run-time control of DCE applications using the OSI management framework","authors":"M. Katchabaw, S. L. Howard, H. Lutfiyya, M. Bauer","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534152","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of a management system in a distributed computing environment (DCE) is to provide a centralized and coordinated view of an otherwise distributed and heterogeneous collection of hardware and software resources. The management software required to achieve this goal will, within a policy framework, monitor, analyze and control network resources, system services and distributed application programs. In our research, we are investigating the use of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) network management standards as a basis for a generic architecture around which such management systems can be built. We are particularly interested in the suitability and flexibility of the OSI standards in the context of managing application programs. The work described in this paper focusses on the efficiency and dynamic control of management data acquisition and on the run-time control of application programs. We describe a prototype management system which has been developed to explore these issues in the management of DCE applications.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116315153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing distributed systems using OSI systems management","authors":"R. Chadha, S. Wuu","doi":"10.1109/IWSM.1996.534154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM.1996.534154","url":null,"abstract":"Management systems are needed in order to guarantee the reliability, availability and performance of distributed software applications. One of the important requirements for a management system is that it should be easy to develop, so that developers do not spend an inordinate amount of time making their applications manageable. Also, management systems should be based on open management standards, providing standard interfaces to enable the development of plug-and-play management applications, which is something of utmost importance in today's multi-vendor environment. In this paper, we present an architecture for an end-to-end management system for managing large distributed software systems, based on OSI systems management standards. We also show how a lot of the complexity of OSI management implementation can be hidden from the developers.","PeriodicalId":248693,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on System Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126539896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}