First steps towards an autonomic management system

In this application paper, we investigate the introduction of the autonomic technology into usual centralized management systems. First, we present the global architecture of the proposed hybrid management system. Then, we describe the core entity of this architecture which is the autonomic agent. Finally, we develop a demonstrator and we define a relevant testing scenario in order to assess the feasibility and the effectiveness of our proposals. This work achieves the first steps towards an autonomic management system.