Delegated agents for network management

Author

Goldszmidt, Germán ; Yemini, Yechiam

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

36

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Current network management depends on centralized monitoring, analysis, and control by operations staff who must manipulate detailed and often obscure element instrumentation. This complex and labor-intensive management paradigm has been stretched to its limits by the scale and complexity of emerging networks. This article describes the use of delegated agents to distribute and automate management functions. With delegated agents, management intelligence can be dynamically embedded in elements and domains so that networked systems can be programmed to be self-managed

Keywords

distributed processing; protocols; software agents; telecommunication computing; telecommunication control; telecommunication network management; centralized analysis; centralized control; centralized monitoring; delegated agents; distributed technology; labor-intensive management; management functions automation; management intelligence; management protocols; network management; networked systems; operations staff; programming languages; self-managed systems; software applications; Access protocols; Application software; Automatic control; Centralized control; Embedded software; Information management; Instruments; Monitoring; Virtual colonoscopy; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.663329

Filename

663329