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The distributed systems have a noteworthy role in today’s information technology whether it is governmental or nongovernmental organization. Adaptive distributed systems (ADS) are distributed systems that can evolve their behaviors based on changes in their environments (Schlichting and Hiltunen, Designing and implementing adaptive distributed systems, 1998, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/adaptiveds/overview.html). For example, a constant monitoring is required in distributed system to dynamically balance the load using centralized approach (Sarma and Dasgupta, Int J Adv Res Ideas Innov Technol 2:5–10, 2014). A monitoring system or tool is used to identify the changes in the distributed systems and all the activities of the entire network systems. The monitoring of network may help to improve the efficiency of the overall network. However, the monitoring system may be compromised by the intruder by gathering the information from the distributed systems. The various secure and insecure monitoring mechanisms have been adopted by adaptive distributed systems. Most of the distributed systems nowadays use monitoring tools to monitor the various parameters of the networking system. The monitoring tool has been implemented to assess the performance overhead during monitoring. The Wireshark monitoring tool and JMonitor tool (Penteado and Trevelin, JMonitor: a monitoring tool for distributed systems. In Proceedings of international conference on systems, man, and cybernetics, COEX, Seoul, Korea, pp 1767–1772, 2012) have been used to monitor the communication between the various users and also to monitor the computational resources used in networked computers. The main concern of this chapter is to investigate the existing monitoring tools for finding the impacts of monitoring activities in the distributed network. The investigations result that, when the monitoring tool collects security-critical information, there is a high risk of information disclosure to unauthorized users. The second concern is that a secure communication channel can be implemented by using the Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA) algorithm to monitor the confidential information. This chapter illustrates the implementation and experimental results related to authors’ research work and formulation of framework for security mechanisms in the context of adaptive distributed systems (Kotari et al., IOSR J Comput Eng 18:25–36, 2016).
Security issues for existing monitoring tool are investigated in detail here. In this connection, the chapter deals with the several security-related network scenarios experienced during monitoring with the help of Wireshark monitoring tool. The proper use of Wireshark monitoring tool helps to identify the possible security threats such as emerging threats of hackers, corporate data theft, and identifying threats due to viruses. The implementation of secure communication channel is discussed, which minimizes the above set of threats.
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Kotari, M., Chiplunkar, N.N. (2020). Investigation of Security Issues in Distributed System Monitoring. In: Gupta, B., Perez, G., Agrawal, D., Gupta, D. (eds) Handbook of Computer Networks and Cyber Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22277-2_24
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