The Regularity Principle of Self-Management

摘要

The principle of regularity proposed here for self management of systems, states that for a large system to be manageable it must possess suitable regularities. In other words, this principle identifies the ability to establish regularities in a system, as a necessary condition for its self-manageability. But this principle does not call for any universal regularity, but for regularities that fit the system to be managed, and the management mechanism to be used. This paper also proposes a mechanism for establishing a wide range of regularities, even over heterogeneous distributed systems—which would otherwise lack them. This provides a critical key for the self management of heterogeneous distributed systems, which is particularly important because such systems do not lend themselves to external management.