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This paper describes a hybrid approach towards distributed systems management. The rule-based software development environment Marvel is combined with conventional management tools and a new adaptive resource management approach. This approach improves distributed system management in at least two aspects: Formalized management policies are automatically enforced and standard management tasks can be delegated to the system. The encapsulation feature of Marvel allows an easy integration of separate management tools under a common policy. The description of a resource management application illustrates our approach.
This research was sponsored by the European Union under contract no. ECAUS003 as an European-Australian collaborative project on Information Systems Interoperability.
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Koch, T., Krämer, B. (1995). Towards a Comprehensive Distributed Systems Management. In: Raymond, K., Armstrong, L. (eds) Open Distributed Processing. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34882-7_20
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