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With evolving modern IT technology, one desirable characteristic of distributed of applications is self-healing, or the ability to reconfigure themselves “on the fly” to circumvent failure. Thus, the goal is to avoid catastrophic failure through prompt execution of remedial actions. This paper proposes a self-healing system that monitors, diagnoses and heals its own internal problems using self-awareness as contextual information. The proposed system consists of multi agents that analyze the log context, error events and resource status in order to perform self-diagnosis and self-healing. For rapid and efficient self-healing, for developing the proposed system, we use a 6-step process: monitoring, filtering, translation, diagnosis, decision and feedback. Our experiments conducted with a prototype system confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system.
This work was supported in parts by Ubiquitous Autonomic Computing and Network Project, 21st Century Frontier R&D Program and ITTA IT Research Center Program of Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea.
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Park, J., Yoo, G., Jeong, C., Lee, E. (2006). Proactive Self-healing System for Application Maintenance in Ubiquitous Computing Environment. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751588_45
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