MonALISA provides an easy mechanism to create pseudo clients able to use the discovery mechanism in JINI and to find all the active services running. Such pseudo clients can subscribe to a set of parameters or filter agents to receive selected information from all the services. This offers the possibility to present global views from the dynamic set of services running in a distributed environment to higher level services.

The received values are stored locally into a relational data base (mySQL or Postgres) and dedicated procedures to compress older values may be used.

This information can also be used to create WEB repositories able to present a synthetic view of how large distributed systems perform. A servelt engine is used to present historical and real time values, statistics and graphical charts in a flexible way.

Basically, once started, the repository registers with some predicates and stores the received values in the local database. A predicate has the following pattern: Farm / Cluster / Node / start_time / end_time / function_list. These parameters (functions) are then plotted into a large variety of graphical charts or statistics tables, following the configuration files describing the needed views, and thus offering global or particular perspectives. The repository also uses an interactive map, for precise farm positioning and monitoring registered sites, links, special links. Thus, it offers much of the Interactive Client's features, adapted for web and emphasizing on data analysis.

The same mechanism is used to offer access to this information from mobile phones using the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP).

A schematic view of how these services are working: