LISA (Localhost Information Service Agent)

TL;DR

LISA is a monitoring component of MonALISA designed to optimize grid computing applications through flexible, high-performance, and dynamically configurable monitoring services, aiding in system performance analysis and optimization.

Contribution

The paper introduces LISA, a novel component of MonALISA, enhancing grid system monitoring with flexible, dynamic, and high-performance features for better system optimization.

Findings

LISA provides flexible and dynamic configuration capabilities.

The system achieves high communication performance.

LISA effectively supports system performance analysis.

Abstract

Grid computing has gained an increasing importance in the last years, especially in the academic environments, offering the possibility to rapidly solve complex scientific problems. The monitoring of the Grid jobs has a vital importance for analyzing the system's performance, for providing the users an appropriate feed-back, and for obtaining historical data which may be used for performance prediction. Several monitoring systems have been developed, with different strategies to collect and store the information. We shall present here a solution based on MonALISA, a distributed service for monitoring, control and global optimization of complex systems, and LISA, a component application of MonALISA which can help in optimizing other applications by means of monitoring services. The advantages of this system are, among others, flexibility, dynamic configuration, high communication performance.