Self-Managing Distributed Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2003, held in Heidelberg, Germany in October 2002.The 20 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on self-configuration, peer-to-peer management, self-optimization and performance management, utility management, self-protection and access control, manageability and instrumentation, and context-awareness.

Keynote Address.- Orchestrating Self-Managing Systems for Autonomic Computing: The Role of Standards.- Self-Configuration.- Generic Online Optimization of Multiple Configuration Parameters with Application to a Database Server.- Eos: An Approach of Using Behavior Implications for Policy-Based Self-Management.- On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence.- Peer-to-Peer Management.- An Epidemic Protocol for Managing Routing Tables in Very Large Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Towards Peer-to-Peer Traffic Analysis Using Flows.- MobiMan: Bringing Scripted Agents to Wireless Terminal Management.- Self-Optimization and Performance Management.- Dynamic Surge Protection: An Approach to Handling Unexpected Workload Surges with Resource Actions that Have Lead Times.- A Method on Multimedia Service Traffic Monitoring and Analysis.- Traffic Measurements for Link Dimensioning.- Utility Management.- Automating Enterprise Application Placement in Resource Utilities.- Managing the Performance Impact of Administrative Utilities.- Policy-Based Autonomic Storage Allocation.- Self-Protection and Access Control.- Visual-Based Anomaly Detection for BGP Origin AS Change (OASC) Events.- Context Driven Access Control to SNMP MIB Objects in Multi-homed Environments.- A Policy-Based Framework for RBAC.- Short Papers.- Management += Grid.- A Web Services Signaling Approach over Optical Networks for SAN Applications.- A Self-Configuring Sensing System for Data Centers.- Towards Autonomic Business Activity Management.- Idiosyncratic Signatures for Authenticated Execution of Management Code.- Effects of Wavelength Conversion on Self-healing Optical Networks.- Manageability and Instrumentation.- Efficient and Transparent Instrumentation of Application Components Using an Aspect-Oriented Approach.- Discovering Dynamic Dependencies in Enterprise Environments for Problem Determination.- Bringing AgentX Subagents to the Operating System Kernel Space.- Context- Awareness.- Management Challenges of Context-Aware Services in Ubiquitous Environments.- Aggregation of Composite Location-Aware Services for Mobile Cellular Networks.