Autonomous agents: Smart network installer and tester (SNIT)

With the evolution in the computer networks, many companies are trying to come up with efficient products which can make life easier for network administrators. Silent automated installation is one category among such products. In this paper, we have proposed silent network installer and tester (SNIT) which provides silent, automated and intelligent installation of software(s) over the network. SNIT will intelligently install any kind of software on request of the network administrator. SNIT not only provides installation services, it also enables network administrators to verify the installation of software over the network. SNIT uses an efficient algorithm to transfer the software installation setup on the network nodes. The system is fully autonomous and does not require any kind of user interaction or intervention. Network administrator is responsible for assigning the task(s) to SNIT and once assigned it performs the task(s) over the network autonomously with the help of intelligent mobile agents. SNIT has been deployed for evaluation purpose at the University Campus Lab equipped with 200 machines and some of the popular softwares were tested in the lab, results were very promising and support the implementation of the solution.