Distributed systems management on Wall Street-AI technology needs

Several Wall Street firms have introduced distributed Unix technology to address their business needs. Essential to the success of this technology is the ability to: offer high system availability; insure high service quality; and promptly notify customers impacted by a system failure. Systems management encompasses monitoring of system components to prevent/detect service disruptions and requires quick analysis of data to identify/diagnose/repair primary source of the disruption. this paper focuses on the need for knowledge-based approaches to address these challenges. The contribution of AI lies in increased automation of the monitoring/diagnostic function, in particular in the shift of the complex and time-consuming data correlation and interpretation task from a human operator to a computer