Monitoring Services in a Federated Cloud

Abstract

This chapter presents the need, the requirements, and the design for a monitoring system that is suitable for supporting the operations and management of a Federated Cloud environment. The chapter discusses these issues within the context of the RESERVOIR Service Cloud computing project. It first presents the RESERVOIR architecture itself, then introduces the issues of service monitoring in a federated environment, together with the specific solutions that have been devised for RESERVOIR. It ends with a review of the authors’ experience in this area by showing a use-case application executing on RESERVOIR, which is responsible for the computational prediction of organic crystal structures.