MOVI: managed object view interface for hierarchical distributed network management systems

This paper present an architecture of a managed object view interface (MOVI) for a distributed network management system managing communication networks for distributed systems, specially for overlapping domain management. The hierarchical domain approach has been adopted for efficient management. We have introduced MOVI to provide a means to construct a management platform for distributed network systems. The integration of different networks which have different network management schemes can be achieved with this hierarchical architecture and MOVI. To support the overlapping managed object among several management domains, the MOVI uses the group communication facility