The present and future of event correlation: A need for end-to-end service fault localization
Małgorzata Steinder, Adarshpal S. Sethi · 2001
the observable malfunctioning of the managed system. Until recently, fault localization efforts concentrated mostly on diagnosing faults related to the availability of network resources in the lowest layers of the protocol stack. Modern enterprise environments require that fault diagnosis be performed in integrated fashion in multiple layers of the protocol stack and that it include diagnosing performance problems. This paper reviews the existing approaches to fault localization and presents its new facets revealed by the demands of modern enterprise systems. We also present end-to-end service failure diagnosis as a critical step towards multi-layer fault localization in an enterprise environment.