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Abstract

There is no standard model at the service layer. However, fault management to distributed services and applications needs to construct and utilize complex models of the participating objects and their interdependencies. Thus, model-based fault management tools can predict the correct behavior of diagnosed systems and use the resulting predictions to identify faults. When used on-line in real systems, diagnostic tools based on such models should be able to provide prompt response and accurate, comprehensive explanations of the root causes of faults. In this paper we propose to address these requirements: modeling, proactive diagnosis, and explanation. We apply a recent extension to the constraint satisfaction paradigm, called composite constraint satisfaction, to facilitate modeling of complex systems, and we use constraint propagation techniques to support proactive diagnosis and explanation. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach on an example of a basic groupware service, namely, distributed database replication.

Publication Date

5-24-1999

Journal Title

Integrated Network Management, 1999. Distributed Management for the Networked Millennium

Publisher

IEEE

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INM.1999.770719

Document Type

Article

Rights

©1999 IEEE

Comments

This is an Author’s Manuscript of an article published by IEEE in Integrated Network Management, 1999. Distributed Management for the Networked Millennium in 1999, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INM.1999.770719

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