An Online Monitoring Solution for Complex Distributed Systems Based on Hierarchical Monitoring Agents

A Monitoring Model for Hierarchical Architecture of Distributed Systems

“…These components are associated with information about the corresponding states and behaviors, general operations of MO is described by Fig. 1, they can be divided into two basic parts such as internal part -local operations and external part -communication operations [4].  The communication operations: these operations are functions that interact with other objects in the system such as inter-process communication, controlling to interact with management system, etc.…”

“…Many technical solutions have been researched and developed to support administrators in monitoring the system. Through the survey and review some typical monitoring works such as [10,11,13,14,15,16,17] in paper [4,8], in which we presented in detail the technical details, some advantages as well as disadvantages of these solutions. The survey result on implementation solutions and function of monitoring systems is presented in Table I and II.…”

“… The first stage is general monitoring with monitoring solutions in GM, the global architecture information of monitored DS in general and the information about general operations of monitored objects in particular are essential in this stage, because they can support administrator for quickly detecting common errors or error domains that arise during operation of the system [4].…”

“…However, GM are now mainly based on tools (OS, utilities) that developed by device vendors side or operating systems side. These built-in tools have some disadvantages such as discrete monitoring information, independent of each device, etc [4,8], hence the global of DS cannot be solved with these built-in tools. The global architecture should be continued to research and develop more effective, the goal of the paper focus on solving this problem base on modeling for architecture of MO and building hierarchical monitoring entities respectively.…”

“…The modeling approaches play an important role, in which it is used as a basis layer for algorithm and solution development in monitoring, diagnosing and controlling issues independently. Therefore, the modeling for MO in DS is really necessary, the objective of the paper is based on the research results on DS and set theory [1,4,6], we focus on building a formal model for the hierarchical architecture of MO in DS, in which consists of architecture of monitored objects, networks, domains and global distributed systems. We also present a basic monitoring model for the hierarchical architecture of DS, in which can show DS topology visually as well as the local operations and the communication operations of MOs in the DS.…”