An expert fault manager using an object meta-model

Author

Barnett, Bruce ; Crapo, Andrew

Author_Institution

General Electric Corp. Res. & Dev. Center, Schenectady, NY, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

16-19 Oct 1995

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

234

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of an expert fault management (EFM) system, based on an object-oriented meta-model, which can isolate causes of performance problems in a distributed environment. Error diagnosis can integrate application, system, and network related causes and identify the root cause, as well as affected applications. Diagnosis can be proactive or reactive. The implementation is based on the GEN-X expert system, and intelligent agents written in PERL. It is self-configuring, and has demonstrated it´s ability to detect problems earlier and more accurately than humans

Keywords

diagnostic expert systems; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; object-oriented methods; software agents; GEN-X expert system; PERL; distributed environment; error diagnosis; expert fault manager; intelligent agents; object meta-model; object-oriented; performance problems; Diagnostic expert systems; Environmental management; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Hardware; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Object oriented modeling; Research and development; Research and development management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1995., Proceedings. 20th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7162-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1995.527349

Filename

527349