Orientador: Marco Aurelio Amaral Henriques / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T06:09:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_AnaMariadeSeixas_M.pdf: 2667642 bytes, checksum: d79dd53fe62b9832524a344ff3c494ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O gerenciamento e a utilização de ambientes de computação em grade requerem um grande esforço na obtenção das informações necessárias para a administração e para a identificação e resolução de problemas. Acompanhar o desempenho das aplicações, determinar a origem de problemas, identificar e eliminar gargalos são funções que requerem informações detalhadas sobre a plataforma e sobre as aplicações sendo executadas. Neste trabalho apresentamos uma proposta para implementação de uma ferramenta para monitoramento do sistema JoiN de processamento maciçamente paralelo virtual. Após a análise de algumas das ferramentas hoje existentes para monitoramento de ambientes distribuídos não identificamos entre elas uma solução que satisfaça os requisitos do sistema JoiN e, por esta razão, implementamos uma nova ferramenta que procura integrar as melhores características encontradas nas ferramentas analisadas. As principais dificuldades encontradas na implementação desta ferramenta são relacionadas à obtenção e à publicação de um grande número de informações que permitam a observação e o monitoramento do sistema JoiN e que facilitem seu uso e sua administração, interferindo o mínimo possível com seu desempenho. Os resultados obtidos mostram que a ferramenta implementada no sistema JoiN oferece uma boa relação custo/benefício no monitoramento das principais funções deste sistema sem causar impactos significativos na execução de suas aplicações paralelas. / Abstract: Grid Computing environments management and utilization require a great effort in gathering necessary information for site administration and identification/resolution of problems. Discovering applications performance, determining the origin of problems, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks are functions thar require detailed information about the platform and the applications running. In this work we present a proposal for implementation of a monitoring tool for JoiN system, a massively virtual environment for parallel processing. After the analysis of some of the available monitoring tools for distributed environments, we could not identify among them a solution that meets JoiN requirements and, therefore, we decided to implemented a new tool which seeks to incorporate the best features found on analyzed tools. The main difficulties found in the implementation of this tool are related to the collection and publication of a large number of information that allow JoiN observation and monitoring and that helps its administration and use, interfering as little as possible with its performance. The results show that the tool implemented in JoiN system offers a good cost/benefit relationship in monitoring the main functions of this system without causing significant impacts in the execution of parallel applications. / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Applikationsövervakning är en term för att i realtid övervaka applikationer och kunna upptäcka fel innan slutanvändaren märker av ett problem. Med övervakning av applikationer menas inte bara den enskilda programvaran utan allt som rör applikationen i fråga. Trafikverkets önskemål är att leverera en hög kvalité i sina applikationer. I nuläget har utvecklare ingen eller dålig insyn i hur en applikation levererar i en skarp miljö efter att de lämnat över ansvaret till drift. För att kunna hålla en bra kvalité i sina applikationer så vill de undersöka hur applikationsövervakning kan hjälpa till att se behov av ändringar i applikationer innan större problem uppstår. I en fallstudie bestående av intervjuer och dokumentstudier kommer genom användning av situationsbaserad FA/SIMM nuvarande arbetssätt fångas. Samt fånga mål och problem som uttrycks i verksamheten kring utveckling & förvaltning och drift av applikationer. Dessa kommer sedan analyseras för att undersöka på vilket sätt applikationsövervakning skulle hjälpa utvecklare & förvaltare, men även driftspersonal i deras arbete. Resultatet av detta visar att de problem och mål som tas upp dels är organisatoriska i sin natur och arbetssättet DevOps framhålls som en möjlig lösning. Även att applikationsövervakning de facto skulle kunna bidra till en ökad kvalité i applikationerna genom att tillföra en möjlighet att arbeta mer proaktivt. / Application monitoring is a term for real-time monitoring of applications to be able to discover faults before they reach the end-user. Application monitoring does not only mean the individual software but also everything surrounding it, which can have an impact on the application. Trafikverket wishes to deliver high quality in their applications. At present the developers have no or little insight in how an application delivers in a live environment after they handed over the responsibility to the operations. In order to maintain a good quality of their applications they want to explore how application monitoring may help to see changes in the needs of applications before major problems occur. In a case study consisting of interviews and document studies and through situation based FA/SIMM present ways of working will be produced. It will also identify wishes/concerns expressed by the developers and operations departments in the managing of existent applications. These will then be analyzed to examine in which way application monitoring would help developers, but also operations, in their work. The result shows that the problems which are brought forward are in a sense organizational of nature and that DevOps is a possible way for solution. But also that application monitoring could contribute to the delivery of high quality in applications in a proactive manor.

Master’s thesis describes development of the system which monitores a mobile application usage on the Android platform. The aim is to create the system which collects data in the background of a mobile application automatically and is able to analyze them. The thesis analyses the existing systems and proposes requirements for the new system based on them. Design of the whole system to monitor mobile application usage is the next part of the thesis. Design and implementation of mobile part, desktop application and server part of the systems and communication between them are described in the individual chapters.

Cette thèse en informatique se situe plus particulièrement dans le domaine de l’ingénierie des connaissances. Elle concerne la mise en place a posteriori de systèmes d’assistance dans des applications existantes, en adoptant une démarche générique. Afin de permettre la mise en place de systèmes d’assistance dans des applications existantes sans avoir à les redévelopper ni à accéder à leur code source, nous avons choisi d’adopter une démarche entièrement épiphyte. Nous avons proposé un processus d’adjonction d’un système d’assistance à une application-cible de manière épiphyte. Il est constitué de deux phases : la spécification et l’exécution de l’assistance. La phase de spécification de l’assistance permet à un expert, le concepteur de l’assistance, de représenter ses connaissances relatives à l’application-cible et à l’assistance qu’il souhaite mettre en place dans celle-ci. La phase d’exécution de l’assistance exploite ces connaissances pour fournir aux utilisateurs finaux l’assistance souhaitée par le concepteur. Pour permettre d’une part la spécification de l’assistance par un concepteur potentiellement non-informaticien, et d’autre part l’exécution automatique de l’assistance spécifiée, nous avons proposé un langage pivot : aLDEAS. Ce langage graphique permet de définir des systèmes d’assistance très variés sous la forme d’un ensemble de règles. Nos propositions théoriques ont été mises en oeuvre de façon opérationnelle à travers le système SEPIA, constitué de différents outils. L’éditeur d’assistance de SEPIA est destiné aux concepteurs d’assistance et met en oeuvre la phase de spécification de l’assistance. Il fournit aux concepteurs d’assistance une interface pour manipuler les éléments du langage aLDEAS, afin de définir un système d’assistance sous la forme d’un ensemble de règles aLDEAS. Les systèmes d’assistance aLDEAS peuvent ensuite être exécutés par le moteur générique d’assistance qui met en oeuvre la phase d’exécution de l’assistance. Il permet de fournir l’assistance ainsi définie aux utilisateurs finaux des applications-cibles. Pour cela, le moteur d’assistance s’appuie sur différents outils épiphytes, pour surveiller et inspecter l’application-cible, ainsi que pour réaliser les actions d’assistance pour l’utilisateur final. Bien que mettant en oeuvre des modèles génériques, le système SEPIA permet de mettre en place de l’assistance finement contextualisée et adaptée aux spécificités, d’une part de l’application-cible, et d’autre part des utilisateurs finaux. / This thesis in computer science is situated more particulary in the field of knowledge engineering. It concerns the a posteriori setup of assistance systems in existing applications, while having a generic approach. In order to setup the setup of assistance systems in existing applications without a need to redevelop it or to access its source code, we choose to have a fully epiphytic approach. We proposed a adjunction process of an assistance system to a target-application with a epiphytic manner. It is constituted of two phases: the specification and the execution of the assistance. The assistance specification phase enables an expert, the assistance designer, to represent his knowledge relative to the target-application and to the assistance that he wishes to setup. The assistance execution phase uses this knowledge to provide the target-application end-users with the assistance wished by the designer. To make possible on the one hand the assistance specification by an assistance designer potentially non-computer scientist, and one the second hand the automatic execution of the specified assistance, we propose a pivot language: aLDEAS. This graphical language makes possible the definition of very varied assistance systems, with the shape of a set of rules. Our theoretical propositions have been implemented through the SEPIA system, constituted of different tools. The SEPIA assistance editor is aimed at assistance designers, and it implemented the assistance specification phase. It provided the assistance designers with an interface to handle aLDEAS elements in order to define assistance rules. These rules can then be executed by the SEPIA generic assistance engine, which implements the assistance execution phase. It provides the target-application end-users with the specified assistance. For this purpose, the assistance engine manages different epiphytic tools, in order to monitor and inspect the target-application, and to perform the assistance actions. The models implemented through the SEPIA system are generic, but it make possible the setup of assistance systems specifically suited on the one hand to their target-application, and on the second hand to the end-users.