Dynamic Reconfigurable Integrated Management and Monitoring System for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems

In this paper, we develop an integrated management/monitoring system that supports to dynamically reconfigure information models for systems or applications managed by heterogeneous distributed systems. Sub-systems of such distributed systems should consist of diverse platforms. The distributed systems' configurations should be altered as new subsystems are added, removed and modified. The altered configurations should conform to the configuration information of the integrated management/monitoring system. Further, upon the system configurations being changed, the altered system configurations should be synchronized with the information on the integrated management/monitoring system. Moreover, availability should be assured during synchronization to the extent that users can access the monitoring information with no system halting. This study focuses on notifying the integrated management/monitoring system of any changes in hardware/software configurations on any subsystems under its management, and on dynamically re-configuring the information about hardware and software being managed based on the information notified. In sum, the findings here will be conducive to carrying out reliable integrated management by reflecting the information on heterogeneous distributed systems in the integrated management/monitoring system, no matter how complicated their structures may be.