CS639: Distributed Systems Management

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Distributed systems management entails monitoring and controlling various distributed system resources on today's networks in order to provide a more reliable, secure and efficient distributed system environment. This course covers the basic concepts and techniques used in distributed systems management. International standards such as Internet network management framework, OSI systems management framework and DMTF DMI will be studied. Also, the latest technology on Web-based management will be studied. The students will get a chance to develop and operate a prototype distributed systems management system.

Instructor:

Dr. Won-Ki Hong (PIRL 434) : 279-2244, jwkhong@postech.ac.kr

Lectures:

Tue. & Thur. 2:45-4:00 pm (±³¾ç-201)

Pre-requisites:

Courses on operating system, computer networks, network management and distributed processing or equivalent are required. For those who have not taken these courses must get a permission from the instructor in order to take this course.

Required Texts:

A textbook is required for this course. The textbook can be purchased from the university bookstore.
• William Stallings, SNMP, SNMPv2, and RMON, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63479-1, 1996.

Strongly Recommended Books:

• David Perkins and Evan McGinnis, Understanding SNMP MIBs, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-437708-7, 1997.
• William Stallings, SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63331-0, 1993.
• Morris Sloman, Network and Distributed Systems Management, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-62745-0, 1994.

Suggested Reference Books:

• Uyless Black, Network Management Standards, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-113994-X, 1995.
• Marshall T. Rose, The Simple Book: An Introduction to Internet Management, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-177254-6, 1994.
• H. G. Hegering and S. Abeck, Integrated Network and System Management, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-59377-7, 1995.
• A. Leinwand and K. F. Conroy, Network Management: A Practical Perspective, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-60999-1, 1996.
• Franz-Joachim Kauffels, Network Management: Problems, Standards and Strategies, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-394248-1, 1996.
• Douglas E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-599010-6, 1997.
• William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-02-415425-3, 1997.
• William Stallings, ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-02-415513-6, 1995.

Suggested Reference Journals:

• Plenum Press, Journal of Network and Systems Management , ISSN 1064-7570, Plenum Press.
• IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Network , ISSN 0890-8044.
• IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Communications Magazine , ISSN 0163-6084.

Evaluation:

• Evaluation on each student will be done based on the following:
  1. Assignments - 20%
  2. Term Projects - 70%
  3. Class Participation - 10%
• Note: the above evaluation scheme may change slightly during the course.

Term Projects:

There will be two term projects (worth 70% of the final mark). Both projects will be done in teams of students. The first project will involve surveying articles for techniques needed in distributed systems management and writing a survey paper. The second project will involve developing a distributed systems management system.

Assignments:

There will be several assignments (worth 20% of the final mark).
• Assignment 1 Solution
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
Late assignments may be handed in, but there will be a penalty of 20% of the mark for assignments turned in less than one day late, and an additional penalty of 10% for each day thereafter.

Cheating Policy -- Cheating will not be tolerated in this course. Students are encouraged discuss things related to courses and assignments but the materials handed in must be his/her own. The maximum penalty for the first offense is for the assignment in question. For subsequent offenses may result in an automatic failure of the course and possibly other academic punishments.

Class Participation:

Students are strongly encouraged to attend all lectures and to participate in discussions during lectures. 10% of the final mark is assigned for good class participation.

Computer Accounts:

You will be given a HEMOS account which can be used to access Unix and the Internet world.

Reading the News:

The newsgroup postech.class.cs639 has been set aside for course use. You can read and post news to this newsgroup using the Unix commands rn (or trn, xrn) and Pnews, respectively. Alternatively, you can use netscape to read and post news. If you wish to post or read articles, click (postech.class.cs639)

In this newsgroup you will find changes to the lecture schedule, clarifications to the assignments, etc. It is your responsibility to read this newsgroup on a regular basis. There is likely to be little information at the beginning, but more as the course progresses.

Topics Covered:

The following is a tentative set of lecture topics that will be covered in this course.

1. Introduction to Distributed Systems Management
2. CORBA and JAVA
3. Overview of Network Management
4. Network Management Standards (SNMP, CMIP)
5. Overview of Systems Management
6. Systems Management Stanards (IETF, ISO, DMTF)
7. Overview of Applications Management
8. Overview of Web-based Management
9. Web-based Management Standards (JMAPI, WBEM)
10. CORBA-based Management
11. Integrated Management
12. Survey Paper Presentations
13. Project Presentations