The prospect of future autonomic software products is intriguing. But is fits well into the open source model. To be successful, it must have the basic open source infrastructure as a foundation of tools, open standards, and support. Those with the interest and expertise in autonomic computing can share their knowledge with each other and the community freely and efficiently. It will also accelerate the development of products.
There are several examples of first wave autonomic open source products under development under the Eclipse framework, such as in the following areas:
Problem Determination tools for integration into self-healing and self-protection aspects of autonomic computing.
Autonomic Monitoring tools for the collection of system management data used in self-optimizing.
Heterogeneous Workload Management tools to manage workloads and resources across multiple vendor networks and machines. These are used in self-optimizing.
Complex Analysis tools for analyzing many aspects of the impact of data interactions.
