Comparison of Representative Grid Monitoring Tools

The report provides a short description of the grid monitoring architecture and existing event services. It deals with five monitoring tools that can be used in a grid environment, namely NetLogger, Globus HeartBeat Monitor, Network Weather Service, Autopilot with Virtue and a prototype implementation of the grid monitoring architecture at NASA. The comparison of the tools is based on the requirements of scalability, intrusiveness, validity of information, data format, extendibility, communication, security and measurement metrics.

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