Approaches to building self healing systems using dependency analysis

IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-132

  Gao, J ^a   Kar, G ^b   Kermani, P ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependency analysis; Problem determination; Root cause analysis; Self healing; Transaction performance management

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONDITION MONITORING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS; PROBLEM DETERMINATION; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SELF HEALING; TRANSACTION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT;

INTERNET;

EID: 4544287418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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