using tcl mobile agents for monitoring distributed computations
Agents, integrating cods, and data mobility, can be used as building for structuring distributed computations. Despite its attractiveness, mobile agent programming is still a disputable technique and needs further study. This paper reflects our experience in using mobile agents for implementing monitoring tasks. It gives a brief overview of the mobile-agent model of computations and the D'Agents platform in particular. Then, a monitoring application, built on top of D'Agents under Linux, is described. Features of mobile agent programming with D'Agents are discussed.
monitoring distributed computing mobile agent-based computing