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Cooperative computing and integrated system management: A critical comparison of architectural approaches

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New information processing service structures based on client-server concepts gain growing importance in both scientific and commercial computing because theyprovide a high flexibility with respect to the positioning of building blocks of a distributed application. The price for this flexibility, however, is a more complex system management. The paper discusses the new management requirements in a cooperative computing environment. The management platforms needed in this context must provide appropriate models for cooperation, services for supporting distributed management applications and an information model as a basis for the modeling of resources relevant to system management. The paper presents and evaluates approaches to solutions existing so far in research and development.

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Hegering, H.G., Neumair, B. & Gutschmidt, M. Cooperative computing and integrated system management: A critical comparison of architectural approaches. J Netw Syst Manage 2, 283–316 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02139366

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