Beyond Nagios - Design of a Cloud Monitoring System

Augusto Ciuffoletti

2016

Abstract

The paper describes a monitoring system specially designed for cloud infrastructures. The features that are relevant for such distributed application are -) scalability, that allows utilization in systems of thousands of nodes, -) flexibility, to be customized for a large number of applications, -) openness, to allow the coexistence of user and administration monitoring. We take as a starting point the Nagios monitoring system, that has been successfully used for Grid monitoring and is still used for clouds. We analyze its shortcomings when applied to cloud monitoring, and propose a new monitoring system, that we call Rocmon, that sums up Nagios experience with a cloud perspective. Like Nagios, Rocmon is plugin-oriented to be flexible. To be fully interoperable and long-living, it uses standard tools: the OGF OCCI for the configuration interface, the REST paradigm to take advantage of Web tools, and HTML5 WebSockets for data transfers. The design is checked with an open source Ruby implementation featuring the most relevant aspects.

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in Harvard Style

Ciuffoletti A. (2016). Beyond Nagios - Design of a Cloud Monitoring System . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: OCCI, (CLOSER 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-182-3, pages 363-370. DOI: 10.5220/0005778303630370


in Bibtex Style

@conference{occi16,
author={Augusto Ciuffoletti},
title={Beyond Nagios - Design of a Cloud Monitoring System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: OCCI, (CLOSER 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={363-370},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005778303630370},
isbn={978-989-758-182-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 2: OCCI, (CLOSER 2016)
TI - Beyond Nagios - Design of a Cloud Monitoring System
SN - 978-989-758-182-3
AU - Ciuffoletti A.
PY - 2016
SP - 363
EP - 370
DO - 10.5220/0005778303630370