Radioport: a radio network for monitoring and diagnosing computer systems

  • Authors:
  • Hans Eberle

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • Radioport: a radio network for monitoring and diagnosing computer systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A radio network is described for configuring, monitoring, and diagnosing the components of a computer system. Such a network offers several advantages: (a) It improves the robustness of the overall system by not having the monitoring functions rely on the interconnect of the monitored system; (b) by broadcasting information, it offers direct communication between the monitoring and monitored components thereby removing dependencies inherent to hierarchical and daisy-chained wired networks; (c) it does not rely on a physical interconnect thereby lowering implementation cost, offering non-intrusive monitoring, and improving reliability thanks to the lack of error- and failure-prone cables and connectors.