Agent-Based Faults Monitoring in Automatic Teller Machines

Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has gained widespread acceptance as a convenient medium to facilitate financialtransaction without need for human agent. However, ATM deployers are facing challenges in maximizing the uptime of theirATMs as a result of wide gap in fault detection, notification and correction of the ATMs. One way to ameliorate thissituation is through intelligent monitoring of ATM by resident software agents that monitor the device real time and reportfaulty components real time to facilitate quick response. We proposed an architecture for rule-based, intelligent agent basedmonitoring and management of ATMs. Agents are used to perform remote monitoring on the ATMs and control functionsuch software maintenance. Such agents can detect basic events or correlate existing events that are stored in a database todetect faults. A system administrator can securely modify the monitoring policies and control functions of agents. Theframework presented here includes software fault monitor, hardware fault monitor and transaction monitor. A set of utilitysupport agents: caller agent and log agent are used to alert network operator and log error and transaction information in adatabase respectively. at-1, stuck-at-0 faults in digital circuits validate the point that faulty circuits dissipates more andhence draw more power.Key words: Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Intelligent Agents, Mobile Agents, Event Monitoring

A network management framework using mobile agents

Network management of heterogeneous networks is still hard to achieve automatically and efficiently. In this study, we present a framework that has the ability to perform network management tasks on heterogeneous networks using mobile agents. This framework handles the inability of many network devices to run mobile agents. While the main focus of the project is the framework, we present an example of mobile agents that are able to locate a fixed set of network failures and detect the possible causes accurately. Experimental results show that some network management tasks can be more easily executed by mobile agents. In particular, search and diagnostic mobile agents are able to find more precisely a cause of a network failure by finding alternate paths to gather more data about the failure

An Open Secure Mobile Agent Framework for Systems Management

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Momenta: Service Management Using Mobile Agents In A Corba Environment

This paper explores the mobility paradigm in the monitoring management of open distributed systems. A pool of monitoring mobile agents is defined to explore the managed environment based on a successive approach to potential problems. The implementation is performed using an open distributed environment based on CORBA objects. 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