Towards Grid Monitoring and deployment in Jade, using ProActive

TL;DR

This paper explores integrating Jade, a Java-based autonomic management system for clustered servers, with ProActive grid technology to enhance scalability and facilitate deployment on large-scale grid infrastructures.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to adapt Jade for grid environments using ProActive, including architectural reorganization and deployment strategies.

Findings

Successful reorganization of Jade architecture for grid scalability

Effective deployment of Jade on grid infrastructures using ProActive

Identification of challenges and solutions for autonomic management on large-scale systems

Abstract

This document describes our current effort to gridify Jade, a java-based environment for the autonomic management of clustered J2EE application servers, developed in the INRIA SARDES research team. Towards this objective, we use the java ProActive grid technology. We first present some of the challenges to turn such an autonomic management system initially dedicated to distributed applications running on clusters of machines, into one that can provide self-management capabilities to large-scale systems, i.e. deployed on grid infrastructures. This leads us to a brief state of the art on grid monitoring systems. Then, we recall the architecture of Jade, and consequently propose to reorganize it in a potentially more scalable way. Practical experiments pertain to the use of the grid deployment feature offered by ProActive to easily conduct the deployment of the Jade system or its revised version on any sort of grid.