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MomentA: Service Management Using Mobile Agents in a CORBA Environment

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This paper explores the mobility paradigm in the monitoring management of open distributed systems. A pool of monitoring mobile agents is defined to explore the managed environment based on a successive approach to potential problems. The implementation is performed using an open distributed environment based on CORBA objects. The use of mobile agents adds flexibility to the management task and the merge with static agents allows the scalability of the monitoring management.

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  1. CBPF/CNPq, R. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    B. Schulze

  2. Institute of Computing/, UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6176, 13083-970, Campinas, SP—Brazil

    B. Schulze, E. R. M. Madeira, P. Ropelatto & F. Vasconcellos

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Schulze, B., Madeira, E.R.M., Ropelatto, P. et al. MomentA: Service Management Using Mobile Agents in a CORBA Environment. Journal of Network and Systems Management 9, 203–222 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011367109678

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