Monitoring Servers, With a Little Help from my Bots

Abstract

This paper discusses a method of employing bots instead of people to monitor servers or server rooms. A bot is a remote controlled computer or a remote controlled program. A bot is usually a malicious program which is an element of a botnet. A botnet is used for doing malicious things such as spreading spam mails or doing DDoS Attacks. We have made bots and we are using bots for doing beneficial things such as monitoring a server instead of doing malicious things. We are monitoring a web server in our campus using a bot. This bot is tweeting whether the server is running or not periodically on the twitter. We are also monitoring a server room in our campus using another bot. This bot shows managers transition of the room temperature and others.

A Campus Equipment Controller Using an IoT System that Can Configure and Control its Edge Devices Behind a NAT Using Wiki Pages on the Internet

“…A remote-controlled computer or program is a bot in this paper. Bots are often malicious programs that form a botnet [5], but they can also be used for beneficial tasks [2], [3], [4], [6]. We define Bot computing as computing by bots.…”

“…Papers of Refs. [2] and [4] show the way using bot computing for doing beneficial things such as monitoring a server instead of doing malicious things. In these papers, information at local places is collected to servers on the Internet.…”

“…There has been an attempt to carry out an automatic and flexible operation of such equipment using Bot Computing [2], [3], [4]. Bot computing enables the remote control of edge devices which are protected by NAT routers, from the Internet.…”

A Remotely Reconfigurable IoT System using Wiki Software

“…To confirm the above presumptions regarding the usefulness of wikis, we developed an IoT system using wiki software [5][6] [7][8] [10]. This system consists of wiki pages using wiki software and bots (defined herein as remotely controlled devices).…”