A framework for determining efficient management configurations

摘要

With the increased availability and complexity of distributed systems comes a greater need for solutions to assist in the management of distributed system components. Despite the significant contributions made towards the development of management tools that monitor and control distributed systems, little has been done to address issues such as optimising the execution of management functions with respect to system and management requirements. This paper models the problem of determining efficient management configurations as a 0-1 ILP optimisation problem. Possible location of managed objects and management agents are mapped into the variables of the problem, and resource constraints and user and management requirements are mapped into the cost function and numerical constraints of the 0-1 ILP problem. A Branch and Bound based algorithm with modified bounding and search methods is proposed, and its complexity and scalability examined. Experiments to illustrate the validity of the proposed model are also described. Finally, we describe possible applications and future research directions.