Distributed Systems Assignment

Lecturer: Dermot Kelly
Deadline: Firday 11th April, 12 noon.


To Do:

1.	Recall section on Remote Procedure Call
2.	Look at example of obtaining systems statistics using sysinfo
3.	Recall Client Server Operations
4.	Recall Server initiated versus Receiver initiated schemes


Actual Assignment:

Develop either a Sender Initiated OR Receiver Initiated scheme using remote procedure calls to gather and monitor system loading statistics from a number of hosts.


Hand up a one-page overview and code for the client & server.


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Notes : 

you require access to a machine running Sun Solaris.
No, you can't use MINDS, the ports required for RPC aren't open. :(
The other minds machine runs FreeBSD, but philb is working on RPC with BSD (i think), so ask him.