A Role-Based Approach to Self-healing in Autonomous Monitoring Systems

The main intention of this paper is to introduce the proposition of a new role-based approach to self-healing monitoring This is preceded by an overview of existing approaches to the monitoring of distributed systems using self-healing features Starting with a discussion of autonomous monitoring systems, we will come to self-healing systems These systems should be able to automatically resolve the problems that occur in a system under monitoring The paper provides insight into various aspects of self-healing monitoring systems at the software and hardware level A detailed description of a new agent-based system, AgeMon, is covered later on The system is based on the roles played by different types of agents The self-healing features can be achieved by a form of co-operation of agents. e g monitoung agents, rule agents, database agents The paper discusses the roles and gives an implementation background