Lilliput meets brobdingnagian: Data center systems management through mobile devices

MAVIS: Managing Datacenters using Smartphones

“…Modern datacenters typically monitor six to twelve metrics per datacenter node, and typically have ten to thirty system administrators, at large academic institutions (lower end of the range) and commercial organizations with data centers for internal operations (as opposed to having it as a line of business). Further, it is common for system administrators to create multiple subscriptions for a metric as they might have overlapping interests [12,1]. For instance, one system administrator may be interested in the behavior of the hypervisors on a rack of machines, together with the temperature profile of the rack.…”

“…While systems management through desktop interfaces is the norm today, increasingly the need is being felt for performing systems management through mobile devices [5,1,6]. This need is arising increasingly often due to three reasons -the first is the ubiquity of smart phones, the second (caused in part by the first) is the mobile workforce of today, and the third is the need for responding promptly to outages or impending outages in the cloud infrastructure.…”