A relational approach to monitoring complex systems

  • Authors:
  • Richard Snodgrass

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Monitoring is an essential part of many program development tools, and plays a central role in debugging, optimization, status reporting, and reconfiguration. Traditional monitoring techniques are inadequate when monitoring complex systems such as multiprocessors or distributed systems. A new approach is described in which a historical database forms the conceptual basis for the information processed by the monitor. This approach permits advances in specifying the low-level data collection, specifying the analysis of the collected data, performing the analysis, and displaying the results. Two prototype implementations demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.