SimMon: a toolkit for simulation of monitoring mechanisms in cloud computing environment
Xinkui Zhao, Jianwei Yin, Chen Zhi, Zuoning Chen · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2016
Summary Monitoring is a precondition for intelligent management in cloud computing environment, such as dynamic resource allocation. Typically, working as an auxiliary tool, a monitoring system is expected to incur the least additional resource usage, thus the strategies to improve the efficiency of monitoring mechanisms become significant. Yet the scale and monitoring requirement of different data centers vary, we cannot determine whether a monitoring mechanism would work well in a new data center before it serves the data center. To evaluate monitoring mechanisms, we proposeSimMon, a toolkit for simulating monitoring mechanisms in cloud computing environments.SimMonis designed to simulate the topologies, actions, and strategies in data collection, dissemination, storage, and management processes.SimMonprovides a controllable and repeatable way to evaluate monitoring mechanisms. In this paper, we describe the requirements analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation ofSimMon. We simulate several different monitoring systems and compare their cost on time and resource to evaluate the efficiency ofSimMon. We reproduce two usage scenarios from former literatures to demonstrate the effectiveness ofSimMonon monitoring mechanisms simulation and evaluation. We build a real‐world working environment to validate the capability ofSimMonon mimicking the characteristics of cloud monitoring systems. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.