A Unified Monitoring Framework for Distributed Environment

Xiaoguang Wang, Hui Wang, Yongbin Wang

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DOI: 10.4236/iim.2010.27049                

Abstract

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. With the increasing computing capacity of computers it is widely used to solve large problems. Monitoring system is one of the key components in distributed computing. Although there have been varieties of monitoring systems developed by different organizations, it is still a great challenge to monitor a heterogeneous distributed environment in a unified and transparent way. In this paper, we present a unified monitoring framework for distributed environment (UMFDE) with heterogeneous monitoring systems, and then propose a comprehensive method based on the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to integrate the monitoring systems in the environment as a unified monitoring system. A representative case study is given to show the feasibility of this framework.

Keywords

Distributed Computing, Unified Monitoring, Enterprise Service Bus

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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