Client Side Reconfiguration on Software Components for Load Balancing

The size of applications is becoming greater every day. Software components enable developers for easily build-ing large applications with basic reusable parts. However, there is a need for a system support to allow these appli-cations to scale to many users and to large networks. Cur-rent methods for load balancing cannot be applied, since they are mostly designed for local area networks and the monitoring tools are not sufficient. To allow efficient load balancing, we first have to consider the architecture of the monitoring infrastructure. In this paper we present a way to build a scalable monitoring platform. By using information provided by this platform, it’s possible to build policies for helping system administrators in the management of com-plex tasks. Using application descriptions, these policies take into account the global architecture and drive recon-figurations using the monitoring data. 1