Cirrocumulus – система управления IT-инфраструктурой

Abstract

With growth of computer systems, their administration and support costs also raise. It is an obvious and well-known rule, but it remains unnoticed until a certain moment.

Modern software systems, in particular high-loaded web projects or other distributed systems, contain large number of logical and physical components. System administrator who supports such system, has to trace all occurring events, quickly react on them and sometimes do this in 24/7 mode. At some stage of the project a human becomes unable to manage such a complexity and need of some kind of automation arises. This article provides a brief overview of the approaches to solving this problem and describes multi-agent system Cirrocumulus, which offers a new approach to the administration of complex distributed computer systems.