Managing virtual storage systems: An approach using dependency analysis

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 118, Issue , 2003, Pages 593-604

  Kochut, Andrzej ^a   Kar, Gautam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Dependency analysis; Root cause analysis; Service Level Agreement; Systems monitoring; Virtual storage systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; STORAGE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COMMON INFORMATION MODEL; DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL TECHNIQUES; INTERNAL SYSTEMS; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; STORAGE SYSTEMS; WRITE OPERATIONS;

MONITORING;

EID: 84904282221     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35674-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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