Distributed Systems: Survey of Open Management Approaches

摘要

Networks and distributed systems are becoming critical for the working of manyenterprises. Traditionally, tools necessary to perform effective system management were inherent to proprietary operating systems and dealt with user and resource allocation and administration. With the introduction of local area networks (LANs), distributed computing environments started to develop. System management tools were enhanced with network management facilities, but rarely in an integrated fashion. Management services, providing mechanisms to monitor and control a great diversity of components and user interactions with these components, and an integrated approach to assure consistency are just now being addressed by standard development organizations and user consortia. The report gives an overview of some existing approaches proposed by differnet organizations: IEEE POSIX Working Group P1003.0, X/Open, ISO/IEC, and the Network Management Forum (NMF).