A Tool for Monitoring Software-Heterogeneous Distributed Object Applications

The next decade will bring radical changes to the way we do information processing, as applications composed of many cooperating distributed subsystems, exploiting different computational paradigms, become more common. This situation increases substantially demands in the area of system management, correctness analysis, understanding, debugging and performance evaluation. Managed Object-based Distributed Monitoring System (MODIMOS) is a project aimed at development of an adaptable platform for visualization of distributed applications, built of interoperating heterogeneous components. MODIMOS is expandable, allowing to add new monitored environments. It employs various management mechanisms to cope with gathered information size and complexity. 1 Introduction This paper 1 describes an experimental system called MODIMOS (Managed Object-based Distributed Monitoring System) that addresses structure and dynamic behavior visualization of the coming object-based distributed software-heter..