IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Abstract
This paper presents a SNMP-based Monitoring Agents
for Multi-Constrain Resource Scheduling in Grids
(SBLOMARS) as an effective solution for resource usage
monitoring in virtual network environments. SBLOMARS is
different to current large-scale distributed monitoring systems in
three essential aspects: Firstly, it reaches a high level of
generality by the integration of the SNMP protocol and thus,
facilitates to handle heterogeneous operating platforms.
Secondly, it is able to self-configure the polling periods of the
resources to be monitored depending of network context and
finally, it makes use of dynamic software structures to interface
with third parties, allowing to be deployed in a wide range of
devices, from simple mobile access devices to robust
multiprocessor systems or clusters with even multiple hard disks
and storage partitions. SBLOMARS has been deployed in
EmanicsLab, a virtual laboratory constituted by fourteen nodes
distributed in seven European Universities. Although the
research is not yet concluded, available results confirm its
suitability to deal with the challenges of monitoring virtual
networks.Postprint (published version
