Paper Info
Title
Management of Cloud Infrastructures through Agents
Abstract
In the Cloud context, the monitoring of service levels becomes critical because of the conflicts of interest that might occur between provider and customer in case of outage. Here we focus on Cloud monitoring at infrastructure level (IaaS), but with the perspective of a Cloud customer. Cloud customers cannot check the compliance of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) trusting the monitoring service of their own Cloud provider. In fact the Cloud provider has a conflicting interest ensuring the guarantees on service levels it provides. Besides Cloud customers need to detect under-utilization and overload conditions to take decisions about load balancing and resource reconfiguration. In this paper we present an agency that is deployed in the Cloud together with the customer's applications and can be used to configure a monitoring infrastructure. Mobile software agents take measures inside the Cloud resources, which are completely under the customer's administration, collect performance information and compute metrics according to the user's requirements. They implement a provider independent monitoring of the Cloud infrastructure during the execution of applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/EIDWT.2012.57
Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud customer,cloud context,monitoring infrastructure,service level,cloud infrastructure,cloud provider,cloud infrastructures,monitoring service,own cloud provider,cloud resource,cloud monitoring,hardware,measurement,cloud computing,servers,availability
Service level objective,Service level,Computer security,Computer science,Service-level agreement,Software agent,Cloud computing security,Service level requirement,Cloud testing,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1986-7
4
0.42
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rocco Aversa160256.19
Luca Tasquier2677.94
Salvatore Venticinque369474.23