A model for adaptive monitoring configurations

With the increased availability and complexity of distributed systems comes a greater need for solutions to assist in the management of distributed system components. Despite the significant contributions made towards the development of management tools that monitor and control distributed systems, little has been done to address issues such as the cost of management and how it can adapt to the dynamic changes in user requirements as well as system resources. We present an adaptive model in which an initial optimal configuration of management agents is determined according to a set of user/system requirements. These agents can later be dynamically reconfigured to adapt to changes in resource availability and user/system constraints, with minimal effect on the behaviour of the managed system components. Algorithm, prototype, and experimental results are presented.