Monitoring distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A relational approach to monitoring complex systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Visualizing Data
Application-Dependent Dynamic Monitoring of Distributed and Parallel Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Network management by delegation: the MAD approach
CASCON '91 Proceedings of the 1991 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
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Monitoring distributed systems involves the collection, analysis, and display of interactions among managed objects. These functions are carried out by the components of a monitoring system, such as management agents.During monitoring, resources in the system are shared between the monitoring system components and the monitored distributed system. Thus, the monitored system has to maintain its functionality with fewer resources. This eventually affects the performance of the monitored system, by causing unwanted effects such as slow response time from processes and delayed access time to devices.Furthermore, ineffcient configuration of the monitoring system components will have additional negative effects on the monitored system components. The combination of all effects of monitoring on the monitored distributed system is referred to as monitoring overhead.To use the resources in the system efficiently, one has to select a configuration with minimal monitoring overhead. However, due to the nature of distributed systems, measuring the monitoring overhead on a system is not a simple task.In this paper, we use techniques to visualize and estimate monitoring overhead. We describe our experiment and the techniques used to analyze the data and perform the measurements.