Supporting distributed application management in Sampa

Author

Endler, Markus ; Souza, Anil J D

Author_Institution

Inst. de Matematica e Estatistica, Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

184

Abstract

The paper presents the architecture and base services of Sampa, a System for Availability Management of Process-based Applications. The system has been designed to support the management of fault-tolerant DCE-based distributed programs according to user provided and application-specific availability specifications. Sampa is supposed to detect and automatically react to faults such as node crashes, network partitions, process crashes and hang-ups. We focus on the design of its base services-the monitoring, reliable group communication and checkpointing facilities and show how they can be used for managing a generic replicated service.

Keywords

distributed processing; formal specification; software fault tolerance; system monitoring; system recovery; systems software; Sampa; Sampa architecture; Sampa base services; application-specific availability specifications; availability management; checkpointing facilities; distributed application management support; fault-tolerant DCE-based distributed programs; generic replicated service; hang-ups; monitoring; network partitions; node crashes; process crashes; process-based applications; reliable group communication; user provided availability specifications; Availability; Checkpointing; Computer architecture; Computer crashes; Data analysis; Electronic mail; Fault detection; Fault tolerant systems; Monitoring; Project management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Configurable Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Annapolis, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7395-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDS.1996.509360

Filename

509360