Title :
A COTS wrapping toolkit for fault tolerant applications under Windows NT
Author :
Benso, Alfredo ; Chiusano, Silvia ; Prinetto, Paolo
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
The paper presents a software toolkit that allows one to enhance the fault tolerant characteristics of a user application running under a Windows NT platform through sets of interchangeable and customizable fault tolerant interposition agents (FTI agents). Interposition agents are non-application software programs executed in an intermediate layer between the software application and the operating system in order to “wrap” the application software, intercepting and possibly modifying all the communications between the application and the surrounding hardware and software environment. The process is completely transparent to both the user application and the operating system and allows the achievement of a high degree of software based reliability in a wide variety of domains
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; operating systems (computers); software agents; COTS wrapping toolkit; FTI agents; Windows NT; Windows NT platform; commercial off the shelf systems; customizable fault tolerant interposition agents; fault tolerant applications; fault tolerant characteristics; intermediate layer; non-application software programs; operating system; software application; software based reliability; software environment; software toolkit; user application; Application software; Costs; Digital systems; Electrical capacitance tomography; Environmental economics; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Informatics; Operating systems; Wrapping;
Conference_Titel :
On-Line Testing Workshop, 2000. Proceedings. 6th IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Palma de Mallorca
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0646-1
DOI :
10.1109/OLT.2000.856605
