provide hardware information to a Dynamic Resource Management (DRM) capability for monitoring network and application resource usage within a distributed computing environment
dynamically allocate and reallocate applications to computer resources as needed in order to maintain specified system performance goals.
capable of determining how each component within the distributed environment is performing, determining what options are available for attempting to correct deficient performance, deciding on the next action that should be taken and enacting the decided course of action.
Fault detection and correction shall occur within 500 ms.
allow for operator control of creating and loading pre-defined static, dynamic, or combined static and dynamic configurations.
monitor the configuration of the system.
The configuration files shall be capable of being updated by the system administrator. These files shall be accessible by the operator and by software subject to password protection administered by the application.
support standards-based monitoring, resource control, and status reporting capabilities.
provide for the implementation of resource policy specifications and resource decision making.
be able to receive remote status, initiate shutdown and restart, and to run individual diagnostics.
shall be based upon industry standards including Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and SAP.