Monitoring and Managing E-Science Cyber-Infrastructures: A Case Study

Due to their scale, complexity, and dynamic nature, e-science cyber-infrastructures have raised major system management challenges. It has been argued that employing system management frameworks to monitor and control large scale systems is a possible solution to address these challenges. This paper presents an application of a management framework, known as Hasthi (Sanskrit name of Elephant which represents robustness), to manage an e-science project called linked environments for atmospheric discovery (LEAD). Hasthi is a generic framework that manages a system according to rules written by administrators, where rules define how Hasthi should respond to changes and failures. Using LEAD as an example, we demonstrate how such extensible management framework can be utilized to manage a complex system, while describing common problems and solutions.