Making distributed applications manageable through instrumentation

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-97

  Katchabaw, Michael J ^a   Howard, Stephen L ^a   Lutfiyya, Hanan L ^a   Marshall, Andrew D ^a   Bauer, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

DCE; Distributed applications management; Instrumentation; OSI management framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002369153     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(98)10070-5     Document Type: Article

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