Embots for Better Element Management

Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics (www.embotics.com) and colleague Tony White have just written a fascinating short article on 'embots', or embedded robots: autonomous agents that run within the management plane and keep watch on servers and similar network elements.

Embotics' Autonomic Computing Engine is inspired by initiatives from IBM, AMD, HP and others to devise an application architecture permitting creation and deployment of lightweight, autonomous, social and mobile software agents on the management plane (i.e., segregated from server CPU, memory and disk) to manage servers, their operating systems and applications. The architecture can function on a physically-separate device such an Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA) resource board, or on a virtual platform such as Xen's Domain 0.

Posted by John Jainschigg at 11:01 AM  Permalink