System Monitoring Tool

From Agent Factory

1 Introduction
2 Editiorial History
3 Tool Archtitecture
4 Deploying the Tool
- 4.1 Deploying a SMT Server
- 4.2 Deploying a SMT Client

Introduction

This tool aims to provide a distributed version of the Agent Factory Debugger, but with the exception that the level of control over the execution of agents is limited to their suspension, resumption and stepping. The main motivation for the introduction of this tool is to provide developers with the ability to observe the overall operation of a deployed multi-agent system, allowing them to drill down into the state of individual agents where necessary.

In contrast with the Agent Factory Debugger, this tool relies solely on snapshots of the constituent agents internal states. Further, while it can be used to monitor the operation of agents on a single agent platform, it is designed to work over multiple agent platforms. With this in mind, we anticipate that the tool will also include functionality to support the management of the deployed community.

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