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Monitoring and Controlling Grid Systems

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An important part of managing global-scale distributed systems is a monitoring system that is able to monitor and track in real time many site facilities, networks, and tasks in progress. The monitoring information gathered is essential for developing the required higher level services, the components that provide decision support and some degree of automated decisions, and for maintaining and optimizing workflow in large-scale distributed systems. In this chapter, we present the role, models, technologies, and structure of monitoring platforms designed for large-scale distributed systems. It also aims to realize a survey study of existing work and trends in distributed systems monitoring by introducing the involved concepts and requirements, techniques, models, and related standardization activities.

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Dobre, C. (2011). Monitoring and Controlling Grid Systems. In: Preve, N. (eds) Grid Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-676-4_7

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