Resource tracker: A purposed remote system monitoring methodology

Hardware management and resource tracking is an important activity in maintaining labs at institute and offices. The resources are spread across various labs; some of the systems are at different location of the office. The monitoring of these systems is itself a tedious task. In this paper a `Resource Tracker' methodology is proposed that provides a method to track remote resources by identifying parameters. With this approach we can create custom report organized in the way we want to show details about the system parameters like basic hardware details, memory, disk drivers, network status of the machine etc. The aim is improve the data accuracy and overcome limitation of traditional methods to track the information of resources. The motivation for development of “Resource Tracker” came from an inherent drawback of the traditional methods. The methodology also provides holistic view of the data by combining the parameters and hence gives a collective view and resource analysis. The methodology also provides a way to find out a system with particular hardware and software configurations. The proposed system is based on three-tier architecture.