COLLECTING DATA FROM RUNNING SYSTEMS
Nielsen · Journal of Computer Science · 2013
This article describes a way to build a consolidated log that can be used to facilitate the state of Windows services at runtime.It makes a side by side introduction of code instrumentation techniques and autonomic techniques that can be used to collected data from running systems in order to construct a consolidated log.The techniques try to deal with the non-standardized syntaxes and contents that come with heterogeneous logs.The collected data might be a foundation for a replacement to such logs hence the behavior can be determined by such collected data.These behaviors can be mapped to common, standardized and easyunderstandable high level events that can be used as a log themselves.