Impact of a Fault Management Architecture on the Performance of a Component-Based System

Increasingly, the application providers are using a separate fault management system that offers out-of-the-box monitoring and alarms support for application instances. A fault management system is usually distributed in nature and consists of a set of management components that does both fault detection and can trigger actions, for example, automatic restart of monitored components. Such a distributed structure supports scalability and helps to ensure that an application meets its quality requirements. However, successful recovery of an application then depends on the fault management architecture and the status of the management components. This paper presents a simulation model that accounts for the effect of management-architecture based coverage on the mean throughput of an application. Such a model would benefit the application providers for choosing the right fault management architecture for their applications.