Massive Deployment of Management Agents in Virtual Data Centers

Graupner, Sven ; Kotov, Vadim ; Trinks, Holger

HP Development Company

关键词: virtual data center;    management system;    management agent;    control system;    deployment;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-321

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

The starting point for this work was: What would be the implications when systems and with them their management systems would become two orders of magnitude larger then they are today? We focus on one problem: How management agents can be automatically deployed in massive amounts (>>10(superscript 4) providing the infrastructure for management and control systems of large-scale virtual data center environments? Management agents perform tasks such as monitoring, processing and dissemination of management and control data, decision-making and actuation. Under deployment we understand the processes of software distribution, installation and configuration assuming a hierarchical organization of agents. Three main areas are discussed: a deployment infrastructure with its components, the automated deployment process with protocols and a recursive generation method which allows the deployment of massive amounts of management agents. The principles presented in this paper can be generalized for common services. 28 Pages