Classification and Impact Analysis of Faults in Automated System Management

The reliability of automated system management solutions will increase in importance as the use of cloud computing and data centres expands. As part of a study to improve reliability, this paper provides a classification of faults that can occur in automated system management and proposes a method for determining the severity of such faults. A baseline deployment is compared with an alternate proposed configuration to determine the difference in reliability. The results gained show a significant improvement over the baseline. While it is still in development, the method is able to determine and compare the reliability of deployment configurations from early in the design process.

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