The Abstraction and Modelling of Management Agents

Perrow, Graeme S.; Hong, James Won‐Ki; Lutfiyya, Hanan; Bauer, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_40

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“…The monitoring agent is therefore realized as a CORBA object consisting of several modular components. The modularity allows an easy exchange or enhancement of the internal components to create a more specialized agent (Perrow, Hong, Lutfiyya and Bauer 1995).…”

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Agent based Management of Distributed Systems with Variable Polling Frequency Policies

Dini

Bochmann

Koch

et al. 1997

Integrated Network Management V

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Management activities are based on the state of distributed system components, relations of these components, and their behaviour. Since management policies are applied across an abstraction of distributed systems, the quality of decisions is dependent on the representation fidelity of the real system state. Obviously, the data collection process updating the abstract representation of real distributed system components has a major impact on the quality of management decisions. Gathering most topical management data improves the quality of management decisions, but requires a high degree of monitoring activity. This is contradictory to the request for low impact management systems, where the amount of system resources used for management purpose should be as small as possible. In this paper we present a twofold approach to this problem: First a high level management architecture is described where monitoring is performed by distributed agents with generic functionality for filtering and event creation. The distribution of active management agents reduces the amount of management related traffic and avoids a potential bottleneck on a centralized management station. Second an adaptive polling frequency approach is presented which enables the monitoring agents to adapt their polling frequency automatically to different behavioral parameters of managed components. The automatic adaptation reduces the performance impact of the agents significantly while at the same time a high accuracy of management relevant information about critical components is ensured. Implementation aspects of the introduced management architecture in a CORBA environment are also discussed.

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Section: Implementation Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent based Management of Distributed Systems with Variable Polling Frequency Policies

Dini

Bochmann

Koch

et al. 1997

Integrated Network Management V

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A multimedia service and management architecture using APIS over CORBA platform

Saydam

Yucel

Kusano

1998

Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST'98

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On the impacts of intelligent agent concepts on future telecommunication environments

Magedanz

1995

Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People — IS&N '95

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The telecommunications environment is changing its face towards an open market of services where the vision is (access to) “information any time, any place, in any form”. Mobility, service personalization and interoperability of services represent fundamental aspects of this environment. In this context a new paradigm is gaining momentum, referred to as “Intelligent Agents”. Unfortunately the term “Intelligent Agent” has become a buzzword and is used in many different contexts. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of the emerging field of Intelligent Agents (IAs) by categorizing the existing types of IAs and identifying their fundamental properties. In addition, the paper identifies potential application areas of IA concepts in the telecommunication environment, focusing on intelligent communications and management, where also the relationships to existing key concepts, such as Intelligent Networks, Telecommunication Management Network and TINA will be addressed

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The Abstraction and Modelling of Management Agents

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Agent based Management of Distributed Systems with Variable Polling Frequency Policies

Agent based Management of Distributed Systems with Variable Polling Frequency Policies

A multimedia service and management architecture using APIS over CORBA platform

On the impacts of intelligent agent concepts on future telecommunication environments

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