Decentralized real-time monitoring of network-wide aggregates

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Stadler;Mads Dam;Alberto Gonzalez;Fetahi Wuhib

  • Affiliations:
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • LADIS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The traditional monitoring paradigm of network and systems management, characterized by a central entity polling individual devices, is not adequate for today's large-scale networked systems whose states and configurations are highly dynamic. We outline principles for monitoring such new systems and stress the need for protocols that continuously monitor network-wide aggregates. To keep the overhead at acceptable levels, such protocols must be tunable, e.g., allow controlling the trade-off between accuracy and overhead. We describe and compare two of our efforts in developing protocols for decentralized monitoring of aggregates; one is based on spanning trees, the other on gossiping.