A generic monitoring tool for DCE /
Distributed systems are becoming very popular. Most
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Distributed systems are becoming very popular. Most distributed applications benefit from being developed and run under distributed environments like Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). DCE uses the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) as a fundamental communications construct for the different components of DCE and applications to interact. RPC itself uses services of a transport protocol for its transport needs. The applications and different components can interact in complex ways, producing a maze of traffic. It sometimes becomes necessary to study the traffic for problem determination and understand the interactions among components of a distributed system. Importantly, what is needed is a way to relate higher layer interactions or problems to low level events. This research identifies some useful patterns in DCE RPC traffic. These patterns are also largely applicable to other distributed environments. All the patterns fit into one single hierarchy. Part of the hierarchy has been used for the RPC packet analyzer in System Monitoring Tool (SMT) for DCE. It understands and analyzes connectionless RPC. One of DCE's advantage is interoperability in heterogeneous environments. Itis thus only proper, that the tool be generic in terms of the underlying network and host operating systems. This issue is addressed partly by providing hooks in the SMT software for smooth incorporation of different media like FDDI and Token Ring. It currently supports Ethernet. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major subject: Computer Science". |
| Physical Description: | x, 69 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |