Network and Distributed Systems Management

Network and Distributed Systems Management
Author: Morris Sloman
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

A complete reference to network management from a bestselling editor and a world-class team of contributors. Complete and authoritative, this book covers all aspects of networks, from available technologies to selecting a vendor and maintaining the net. Includes case studies and a survey of products.

Understanding Distributed Systems, Second Edition

Understanding Distributed Systems, Second Edition
Author: Roberto Vitillo
Publisher: Roberto Vitillo
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2022-02-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1838430210

Learning to build distributed systems is hard, especially if they are large scale. It's not that there is a lack of information out there. You can find academic papers, engineering blogs, and even books on the subject. The problem is that the available information is spread out all over the place, and if you were to put it on a spectrum from theory to practice, you would find a lot of material at the two ends but not much in the middle. That is why I decided to write a book that brings together the core theoretical and practical concepts of distributed systems so that you don't have to spend hours connecting the dots. This book will guide you through the fundamentals of large-scale distributed systems, with just enough details and external references to dive deeper. This is the guide I wished existed when I first started out, based on my experience building large distributed systems that scale to millions of requests per second and billions of devices. If you are a developer working on the backend of web or mobile applications (or would like to be!), this book is for you. When building distributed applications, you need to be familiar with the network stack, data consistency models, scalability and reliability patterns, observability best practices, and much more. Although you can build applications without knowing much of that, you will end up spending hours debugging and re-architecting them, learning hard lessons that you could have acquired in a much faster and less painful way. However, if you have several years of experience designing and building highly available and fault-tolerant applications that scale to millions of users, this book might not be for you. As an expert, you are likely looking for depth rather than breadth, and this book focuses more on the latter since it would be impossible to cover the field otherwise. The second edition is a complete rewrite of the previous edition. Every page of the first edition has been reviewed and where appropriate reworked, with new topics covered for the first time.

Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management

Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management
Author: Kornel Terplan
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1994-09-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780471286394

Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management Kornel Terplan and Jill Huntington-Lee The comprehensive, single source guide for tackling today's most critical network and systems management challenges Includes detailed product assessments from such market leaders as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and more. Now network administrators and MIS pros can downsize their firm's enterprise computing environment and work smarter with fewer staffing resources. This highly usable guide delivers clear, objective guidance for defining and quantifying your distributed management requirements. And it supplies the tactical guidance you need to apply commercially available network management products to ease the transition to rightsized networks, client/server structures, and open distributed systems. Need help reengineering key management processes for a distributed computing environment? Want to know what management integration alternatives are currently available? How to embed products from IBM and Hewlett-Packard into customized solutions? Are expert systems worth the cost? Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management highlights today's three best technological management models for downsized, distributed networks. Then, page after page, it shows what applications are available now and which NMP-, DOS/Windows-, or UNIX-based management platforms they support, and shares application integration case studies that help you anticipate and blast through the barriers for achieving integrated management of client/server structures. Discover: * How to select the right management platform -- with data on various alarm facilities, presentation capabilities, and application programming interfaces and process-specific applications for trouble-ticketing, cable management, traffic monitoring, and data analysis. * Solutions to such hot management problems as remote configuration of routers, software distribution, fault isolation, centralization, automation, outsourcing, use of expert systems, and intelligent processing of collected data. * Performance reviews of IBM's NetView and AIX NetView 6000, Hewlett-Packard's HP OpenView, Sun's SunNet Manager, plus third party integration products from Peregrine Systems, SynOptics, Cisco, Remedy Action Request Systems, Ki Research, and more. * A look ahead at future distributed management protocols, switching technologies, smart agents, and increasing uses of object-oriented technology.

Software Project Management for Distributed Computing

Software Project Management for Distributed Computing
Author: Zaigham Mahmood
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319543253

This unique volume explores cutting-edge management approaches to developing complex software that is efficient, scalable, sustainable, and suitable for distributed environments. Practical insights are offered by an international selection of pre-eminent authorities, including case studies, best practices, and balanced corporate analyses. Emphasis is placed on the use of the latest software technologies and frameworks for life-cycle methods, including the design, implementation and testing stages of software development. Topics and features: · Reviews approaches for reusability, cost and time estimation, and for functional size measurement of distributed software applications · Discusses the core characteristics of a large-scale defense system, and the design of software project management (SPM) as a service · Introduces the 3PR framework, research on crowdsourcing software development, and an innovative approach to modeling large-scale multi-agent software systems · Examines a system architecture for ambient assisted living, and an approach to cloud migration and management assessment · Describes a software error proneness mechanism, a novel Scrum process for use in the defense domain, and an ontology annotation for SPM in distributed environments · Investigates the benefits of agile project management for higher education institutions, and SPM that combines software and data engineering This important text/reference is essential reading for project managers and software engineers involved in developing software for distributed computing environments. Students and researchers interested in SPM technologies and frameworks will also find the work to be an invaluable resource. Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems

Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems
Author: Amy Elser
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447124154

This book describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions. The guide starts with a broad technical overview and basic introduction to cloud computing, looking at the overall architecture of the cloud, client systems, the modern Internet and cloud computing data centers. It then delves into the core challenges of showing how reliability and fault-tolerance can be abstracted, how the resulting questions can be solved, and how the solutions can be leveraged to create a wide range of practical cloud applications. The author’s style is practical, and the guide should be readily understandable without any special background. Concrete examples are often drawn from real-world settings to illustrate key insights. Appendices show how the most important reliability models can be formalized, describe the API of the Isis2 platform, and offer more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty.

Distributed Algorithms

Distributed Algorithms
Author: Wan Fokkink
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262318954

A comprehensive guide to distributed algorithms that emphasizes examples and exercises rather than mathematical argumentation. This book offers students and researchers a guide to distributed algorithms that emphasizes examples and exercises rather than the intricacies of mathematical models. It avoids mathematical argumentation, often a stumbling block for students, teaching algorithmic thought rather than proofs and logic. This approach allows the student to learn a large number of algorithms within a relatively short span of time. Algorithms are explained through brief, informal descriptions, illuminating examples, and practical exercises. The examples and exercises allow readers to understand algorithms intuitively and from different perspectives. Proof sketches, arguing the correctness of an algorithm or explaining the idea behind fundamental results, are also included. An appendix offers pseudocode descriptions of many algorithms. Distributed algorithms are performed by a collection of computers that send messages to each other or by multiple software threads that use the same shared memory. The algorithms presented in the book are for the most part “classics,” selected because they shed light on the algorithmic design of distributed systems or on key issues in distributed computing and concurrent programming. Distributed Algorithms can be used in courses for upper-level undergraduates or graduate students in computer science, or as a reference for researchers in the field.

Distributed Systems for System Architects

Distributed Systems for System Architects
Author: Paulo Veríssimo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461516633

The primary audience for this book are advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Computer architecture, as it happened in other fields such as electronics, evolved from the small to the large, that is, it left the realm of low-level hardware constructs, and gained new dimensions, as distributed systems became the keyword for system implementation. As such, the system architect, today, assembles pieces of hardware that are at least as large as a computer or a network router or a LAN hub, and assigns pieces of software that are self-contained, such as client or server programs, Java applets or pro tocol modules, to those hardware components. The freedom she/he now has, is tremendously challenging. The problems alas, have increased too. What was before mastered and tested carefully before a fully-fledged mainframe or a closely-coupled computer cluster came out on the market, is today left to the responsibility of computer engineers and scientists invested in the role of system architects, who fulfil this role on behalf of software vendors and in tegrators, add-value system developers, R&D institutes, and final users. As system complexity, size and diversity grow, so increases the probability of in consistency, unreliability, non responsiveness and insecurity, not to mention the management overhead. What System Architects Need to Know The insight such an architect must have includes but goes well beyond, the functional properties of distributed systems.

Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
Author: Sukumar Ghosh
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466552980

Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition provides a balanced and straightforward treatment of the underlying theory and practical applications of distributed computing. As in the previous version, the language is kept as unobscured as possible—clarity is given priority over mathematical formalism. This easily digestible text: Features significant updates that mirror the phenomenal growth of distributed systems Explores new topics related to peer-to-peer and social networks Includes fresh exercises, examples, and case studies Supplying a solid understanding of the key principles of distributed computing and their relationship to real-world applications, Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition makes both an ideal textbook and a handy professional reference.

Distributed UNIX System Administration

Distributed UNIX System Administration
Author: John R. Wetsch
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998-01-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780879305406

Is your UNIX system to do list dragging you down? Learn to administer your distributed systems effectively with this survey of team procedures for the enterprise. Then automate the administration with the author's SAmatrix - a complete tool kit that autom