Towards a Comprehensive Distributed Systems Management

This paper describes a hybrid approach t o wards distributed systems management. The rule-based software development environment M a r v el is combined with conventional management tools and a new adaptive resource management approach. This approach improves distributed system management in at least two aspects: Formalized management policies are automatically enforced and standard management tasks can be delegated to the system. The encapsulation feature of Marvel allows an easy integration of separate management tools under a common policy. The description of a resource management application illustrates our approach.