On the use of mobility in distributed network management

Abstract

Information Technology has been under unprecedented transformations and it is dramatically changing the way of work inside organizations. Information management systems must be adequate to cope with the profound effects of this evolution, which expectations includes the introduction into the networks of enormous quantities of different elements. Mobile agent paradigm seems to be, for many researchers, the right solution to deal with the pressures of these new demands. This paper discuss the issues around mobility of code on network management environments and presents ongoing work that provides mobility capability to distributed managers upon recent work of IETF's Disman working group.

Multi-management Schemes for MAF Platforms

“…Moreover, there are available several SNMP based powerful applications and quite a number of installed systems rely on them. This way it is possible to integrate both the mobile agent technology and the SNMP management architecture thus getting the advantages of both [1] [5].…”

SNMP management of MASIF platforms

“…Moreover, there are available several SNMP based powerful applications and quite a number of installed systems rely on them. This way it is possible to integrate both the mobile agent technology and the SNMP management architecture thus getting the advantages of both [5] [6]. On the other hand, MASIF interfaces specify a common access method to mobile agent platforms.…”