IDENTIFYING LIMITS OF SCALABILITY IN DISTRIBUTED, HETEROGENEOUS, LAYER BASED MONITORING CONCEPTS LIKE SLAte

In this paper we present the concept of a scalable job centric monitoring infrastructure.The overall performance of this distributed, layer based architecturecalled SLAte can be increased by installing additional servers to adapt to thedemands of the monitored resources and users. Another important aspect is tooffer a uniform global view on all data which are stored distributed to providean easy access for users or visualisation tools. Additionally we discus the impactof these uniform access layer on scalability