自主性點對點企業資訊平台

An Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Information Platform

黃子龍(Tzu-Lung Huang)

指導教授 ： 曹承礎

國立臺灣大學/管理學院/資訊管理學研究所/碩士(2005年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2005.00365

摘要

隨著資訊科技的快速發展以及企業資訊化程度的加深，組織內部所擁有的個人電腦數量日漸增加，而根據研究顯示這些資源在大部分時間都處於閒置未用的狀態；但是當企業面對某些需要耗費大量電腦資源的特殊應用時，還是必須花費大量資金購買高階伺服器來滿足需求，因此如何善用組織內部的電腦資源來減少不必要的資訊設備支出是今日企業所面臨的一項挑戰。面對上述問題時，企業的資訊部門被迫提出相對應的解決方案，但是即使相關的程式模組被開發出來，進行這些應用服務的安裝、校調、更新、及維護對於資訊人員而言都是單調又繁瑣的工作，因此如何簡化上述任務的執行，使得資訊人員能夠專注於具有更高附加價值的工作上便是他們所面臨的一大挑戰。此外對於企業內一般的電腦使用者而言，日漸動態且複雜的工作使得他們必須藉助許多的應用程式來完成各項任務並且解決各類問題，造成使用者必須在各個程式介面之間不斷切換來使用各項功能，雖然目前企業大多有建置單一企業資訊入口網，但是由於主從式架構本身的限制，使得上述問題仍然無法完全獲得解決，因此如何提供組織內一般電腦使用者一致性的工作介面以及高度自主性的作業環境便是他們的一大訴求。

本研究試圖提出一般性的架構來解決上述組織、資訊部門、以及一般使用者等三個角色所面臨的挑戰，並且實作了一個雛形平台，提供各項功能來達成預定的目標。本研究所撰寫的雛型系統平台使得企業內部的電腦節點具有自我組織、自我部署、自我校調、自我更新、自我解除安裝、自我修復、以及自我最佳化等能力，組織可以利用此平台的功能來支援應用服務或者使用者介面相關的活動。換言之透過本平台系統，組織的資訊部門能夠輕易地管理其所部署的特定應用服務，尤其是那些以善用電腦資源為目的之應用，而組織也可以因為這些應用所提供的功能減少不必要的電腦設備支出；而對於一般的使用者而言，本研究除了提供一致性的使用者介面之外，並且讓他們對於電腦資源的存取具有更高的掌控能力，也就是提供一個以使用者為中心的工作環境。

關鍵字

點對點網路 ； 自主運算 ； 網路服務 ； 入口網站 ； 方針管理

並列摘要

With the rapid development of information technology organizations have become highly dependent on computers. However, research shows that computer resources often remain neglected or unused. But when using special applications that consume large amounts of computer resources, enterprises need to spend a great deal of money to buy high-end servers in order to meet demand. Therefore, how to make use of internal computer resources to decrease unnecessary expenditure is one of the main challenges that enterprises face today. To deal with the above problem, information departments of enterprises are forced to find corresponding solutions. But even if related program modules are available, it is tedious and complicated work for information personnel to install, configure, update, and maintain the application services. Thus, how to simplify the above work so that information personnel can concentrate on higher value-added jobs is a huge challenge. In addition, for ordinary computer users in an enterprise, more dynamic and complicated responsibilities mean that they must apply programs to complete various tasks and solve various problems; thus users must continually switch between different program interfaces to perform different functions. While most enterprises have established their own enterprise information portal (EIP), they still cannot solve the above problems due to the limitations of the client-server architecture. So, how to provide ordinary computer users in an organization with a consistent work interface and a highly autonomous work environment is a challenging issue.

In this paper we propose a general architecture to meet the challenges faced by organizations, information departments, and ordinary users and build a prototype platform to provide different functions to achieve our goal. The prototype platform allows computer peers in enterprises acquire the abilities of self-organization, self-deployment, self-configuration, self-updating, self-uninstallation, self-healing, and self-optimization. Organizations can make use of the platform’s functions to support application services or user interface-related activities. In other words, through the platform system, information departments can easily manage their specific application services; especially those application that make good use of computer resources. Also organizations can reduce expenditure on unnecessary computer equipment due to the functions of the application. For ordinary users, this research not only provides them with consistent user interfaces but also gives them more control over access to information; that is, it provides a user-centered working environment.

並列關鍵字

Autonomic Computing ； P2P Network ； Portal ； Policy Management ； Web Services

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