Web Resource Monitoring Based on Common Information Model

The monitoring of resources is a crucial issue for the high-performance of Web computing, and the scheduling strategies, the management of resources, and the performance analysis are dependent on the monitoring data. The traditional monitoring solution does not provide a unified and consistent model to the devices, resources and services of heterogeneous environments. In this paper a novel monitoring approach is proposed based on the common information model CIM. CIM defines a basic meta-model, syntax for the description of managed object and hierarchical structure of generic object classes. The monitoring system RMCS is given that integrates and extends the existing monitoring system to gather and retrieve the monitoring information. The CIM-based method addresses the variety and heterogeneity of resources in object-oriented way that the monitoring resource is regarded as a class or object. The RMCS enables administrators and users define a wide variety of resources, customize the monitoring parameters and the display way. The experiments show that this monitoring approach provides the scalable and flexible capabilities, and satisfies the Web application requirements