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As distributed system software gain complexity owing to increasing user needs, monitoring and adaptations are necessary to keep system fit and running. These distributed applications are difficult to manage due to changing interaction patterns, behaviors and faults resulting from varying conditions in the environment. Also the rapid growth in Internet users and diverse services has highlighted the need for intelligent tools that can assist users and applications in delivering the required quality of services. To address these complexities, we introduce mobile agent based monitoring for supporting the self healing capabilities of such distributed applications. We present the novel mobile agent based monitoring technique where the monitor agents constantly collect and update the global information of the system using antecedence graphs. Updating weights of these graphs further help in evaluating host dependence and failure vulnerability of these hosts. These graphs help monitoring mobile agents to detect undesirable behaviors and also provide support for restoring the system back to normalcy.
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Singh, R., Dave, M. (2013). Novel Monitoring Mechanism for Distributed System Software Using Mobile Agents. In: Abraham, A., Thampi, S. (eds) Intelligent Informatics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32063-7_41
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