AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION SYSTEMS

General purpose distributed object-oriented environments exist to allo w for the efficient construction of client/server software systems, St andard network and distributed systems management environments exist f or the efficient operation of heterogeneous networked hardware and sof tware systems. As distributed software systems get larger, the economi es of systems development and the economies of software operation dema nd that we find an efficient way of integrating these two technologies , While the use of standardized distributed systems management for the management of distributed software applications seems reasonable, ver y little research has been done to confirm this, In this paper, we pro pose the integration of standardized distributed resource management t echnologies and distributed application software, In our work we have facilitated this integration using techniques based on mainstream obje ct-oriented dynamic modeling, We will describe our techniques of integ ration as well as discuss the need for methodical engineered approache s when working in this area. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.